From the very start of their career, back in the Sixties, since their time as students at St Martin’s School of Art, when they described themselves as “baby artists”, Gilbert & George have espoused the notion of Art For All.
You could say it’s become their catchphrase, a democratic manifesto of sorts, an egalitarian slogan, which is why they have revived and adapted it for their artwork to celebrate the launch of London Creates (which took place at Frieze in Regent’s Park today). A diptych, “Art For All” and “All For Art”, are both reproduced on the front of today’s newspaper, 300,000 collectors’ items, given free to readers from Wembley to Greenwich.
