Protest Crowds and Precarious Freedom, at Camberwell College of Arts

Gerrard is one of the artists exhibiting in Graphic Witness, a show curated by Kate Macfarlane at London’s Drawing Room, running from 18 May – 9 July, opening on 17 May. This exhibition considers the notion of the ‘graphic witness’, a term that harnesses the power of drawing to challenge and question the status quo, to record and reflect protest, as well as to bear witness to social injustices and the horrors of war. Graphic Witness explores the way drawings can both document injustices and become agents that encourage us to act. The artists here use drawing to produce evidence of conflict and suffering, commentaries on injustice and as tools to prompt social change.

Joy Gerrard (b. 1971, Ireland) lives and works in London, and graduated with an MA and MPhil from the Royal College of Art, London. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘shot crowd ’at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2017) and Protest Crowd, Peer UK, London (2015).