Martin Creed, art's Turner Prize winner in 2001 and the son of Quaker parents, has designed a t-shirt for National Quaker Week.
The design is as above and you can download your own free copy of the design (note the stylish back-to-front copyright notage in the bottom left for that fresh and ready for transfer look).
Just don't mention John Lewis, the Quaker-started shopping chain which has carrier bags that look like errr Martin Creed's design for t-shirts for National Quaker Week.
You can also see it here: http://www.quaker.org.uk/Templates/qwForm.asp?NodeID=95810
and at this website you can enter a competition to win a t-shirt with the design already on it.
Peace! Integrity! Simplicity! Truth! Equality!
5 comments:
Is there something I'm missing that makes this (a) to do with Quakers, and (b) artistic...?
I too am scratching my head wondering what a scratch of horizontal lines are supposed to represent. How is anyone going to get the idea that this means Quakers? Just looks like another "too cool to be understood" t-shirt to me. Hmm. Hopefully the rest of Quaker week won't be so obscurantist as this.
Martin @ Quaker Ranter
My take from reading:
http://www.quaker.org.uk/Templates/qwForm.asp?NodeID=95810
or
http://tinyurl.com/2r6enm
is that the winning slogan (expressing the essence of being a Quaker) will be added to t-shirts produced in the future.
@craig barnett - what it has to do with Quakers must be that they were looking around for something to tie the press release/microsite to and they came up with Martin Creed.
It has been done before, an artist donating something to promote Quakers - Wolfgang Tillmans donated a work to Quaker Social Action a few years ago and they made a greetings card out of it - you can still buy it, see http://www.quakersocialaction.com/news.htm#WolfgangTillmans
@martink - for the most part i think that it will be mainstream, although our meeting for worship at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park, London, was described in the South London Press newspaper as 'a series of discussions'. Can't control how people interpret it, maybe they mean silent discussions with God?
@liberata: that link suggests to me that they'll use the winning slogan if the PR people think its good enough, it is not a done thing that it will appear on the t-shirts. Having said that, the t-shirt design is available for download, so you could put it on your own t-shirt with a slogan...
The design represents a Quaker meeting room arrangement with benches?
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