Darren Cullen (activist)

This article is about the British/Irish artist and activist. For Graffiti artists known as SER, see Darren Cullen (graffiti artist).

Darren Cullen
Born
Darren Cullen

1983
Leeds, West Yorkshire, England[1]
NationalityBritish / Irish
EducationGlasgow School of Art
Known forVisual art, satire
Websitespellingmistakescostlives.com

Darren Cullen (born 1983 in Leeds, England)[2] is a British-Irish artist and activist whose artwork satirises topics ranging from the insidious nature of advertising,[3] from the culpability of the "Santa lie" to armed forces recruitment propaganda.[4]

In 2014, his anti-army recruitment comic 'Join the Army' was added to the Victoria and Albert Museum permanent collection.[5]

  1. ^ "Darren Cullen".
  2. ^ "About | Darren Cullen // Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives". SPELLING MISTAKES COST LIVES.
  3. ^ The Independent. "Payday loans that are marketed at kids? Why not?", The Independent
  4. ^ The Skinny. "Darren Cullen: Unto the Breach", The Skinny
  5. ^ "Your Search Results - Search the Collections - Victoria and Albert Museum". collections.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2017.