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Protest, resistance and dissent: a retrospective of the art of Peter Kennard

The UK’s foremost political artist talks through half a century of his work, on show at the Whitechapel Gallery in London

Even as he hangs work for a retrospective at one of his childhood haunts, London’s Whitechapel Gallery, Peter Kennard seems beset by misgivings. Archive of Dissent is a celebration of 50 years of work by the UK’s foremost political artist, yet he admits to a “ sense of failure of making work like this”. He rallies despite himself, saying “but that is also the impetus to go on making it”.

Peter Kennard’s Haywain with Cruise Missiles, 1980. Photograph: Tate

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