Peter Kennard

'These images refuse to be forgotten ... they remind us of the need to speak out in protest, the protests of the dead and the living'

-- John Berger

'This art is a a jolt of electricity. A shot in the arm. A kick up the backside. You know what? It’s a wake-up call'

-- Jarvis Cocker

'Britain's most important political artist'

-- The Guardian

'I take my hat off to you Sir'

-- Banksy

'Art cannot change the world but while Kennard is still working, there is at least hope'

-- Laura Cumming, The Observer

'Kennard sees the skull beneath the skin all right: an area dominated by greed, indifference, ruthlessness, naked force against the powerless; the holy grail of the Big Buck'

-- Harold Pinter

'In its form and power, Peter Kennard's art ranks among the most important in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His pictures brilliantly evoke the faces that cry out from the silent war'

-- John Pilger, The Guardian

'Peter Kennard's work is a harrowing x-ray of the shadow side of the world. He perfectly captures the brutal asymmetries of our age: heavy weaponry trained on broken people, all-seeing technologies and disappearing identities, perpetually exhaling industry and an asphyxiating planet'

-- Naomi Klein

'Peter Kennard's work is redolent of the best anti-war imagery of Goya, it is iconic in our movement and beyond'

-- Kate Hudson, General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (