PROCESSIONS: advert-body-1 by Grey London

Grey London has launched a series of posters to promote the national art project Processions, which marks 100 years since women got the vote. Tens of thousands of women and girls will walk in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast to celebrate this historic moment and consider what it means to be a woman today.

The project is produced by Artichoke, the not-for-profit organisation behind other public art works including ‘The Sultan’s Elephant’ and ‘Lumiere.’ It’s been commissioned by 14-18 Now, the UK’s art programme for the First World War, which toured the poppies (Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red) to the Tower of London and around the UK.

Each participant will be given a green, purple or white scarf (the colours that represent the Suffragette movement) to create a huge striped procession through the streets. At the heart of these rivers of colour will be specially created banners echoing those carried by suffrage campaigners. Grey London has been supporting Artichoke over the last year, designing the visual identity for Processions. The work will be seen throughout the event which is aiming to be the UK’s largest ever mass participation artworks.

The posters, on display across the UK on sites donated to Artichoke by Primesight, Clear Channel and JCDecaux, feature this branding which optimises the Suffragette colours in a modern way.

Grey’s design work will be seen all this week in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, as well as online.