Sign Paintings For Plymouth
Peter Liversidge

Liversidge made a series of new works for the We The People Are The Work that brought together the ideas and voices of many different individuals and groups from Plymouth. Made into placards at The Council House during the exhibition by a team of Plymouth residents employed as sign painters, these signs were spread around the city by the public and through events, including a ritual burning led by Plymouth school children during Bonfire Night on The Hoe on 5th November. 

The artist’s project was a celebration of communities, of cooperation, and of protest. It offered a means by 
which people and ideas came together through language: flags were flown, slogans were composed, placards painted, processed, and in some cases even set ablaze. Resolutely inclusive, the project was driven by a desire to make heard a multiplicity of local voices, setting up situations in which important questions about what it means to belong were discussed, recorded and aired by Plymouth’s own residents.
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Sign Paintings for Plymouth and What Is It That Sets Us Apart were commissioned as part of We The People Are The Work, a major visual arts project curated by Simon Morrissey, Director of Foreground and presented by PVAPG (Plymouth Visual Art Programming Group), a partnership between The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art, KARST, Peninsula Arts at Plymouth University, Plymouth Arts Centre and The Box, Plymouth.

The exhibition is part of Horizon, a collaborative two-year programme of visual contemporary arts, funded through Arts Council England’s Ambition for Excellence fund and led by Plymouth Culture.