Ready or not, 2020 has slammed the future before us, and it’s time to sink or swim. Climate change, transparent communications, accessible healthcare, and social justice reform have become shared global missions. In so many respects, educating the path to reform is a difficult task, but visual art expression can often convey urgency and connection where words cannot. In this critical moment to steady the global tipping point, a major pandemic has forced us to exchange ideas in the digital space instead of physical social collaboration.
This past spring, Lavazza launched TOward TOmorrow and a 2020 international contest with a project called, “TOward 2030, What are you doing?” Artists from around the world created artwork from a list of 17 global NGOs working under the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. With hundreds of entries from around the globe, the winner of the 2020 competition was UK-based, self-described “creative maker,” Pricklysauce, whose work embodied SDG 16—Peace Justice and Strong Institutions. We sat down with the artist after the announcement of his winning work, a potent poster image flashing colorful strength and the immediacy of classic graphic design. From a life in architecture, furniture design and his own poster-a-week project, the 50-year-old artist has had a lifetime working in the arts, and a breakthrough in his practice.
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