Museum of Unrest: The Friends and Allies Collection for Left Cultures Magazine, September 2025
For the September 2025 edition, Left Cultures magazine invited the Museum of Unrest to contribute a series of stories about its history and the projects undertaken by people involved with the organisation.
In this collection, we present each of these stories, along with links to the storytellers and their individual projects.
John Phillips
When Pippa Smith and I set up Paddington Printshop in 1975…
David Westhead
The Wembley to Soweto Foundation, launched during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa…
Clare Patey
In 1997, I stumbled upon the Bargehouse, a crumbling, five-story warehouse behind London’s OXO Tower…
Godfried Donkor
My collaborations and capers with John at londonprintstudio always involved playful conversations over dinner and drinks…
Najlaa Elageli
My journey into curating for the visual arts began somewhat unintentionally in 2012…
Nika Dubrovsky
I met John Phillips at an exhibition in London a few years ago…
Cartoons by Andrzej Krauze.
