[vicious collective] your local friendly DIY Collective have launched Issue No.1 [winter] of our new quarterly magazine VICIOUS DAILY! CLICK HERE TO BUY MAGAZINE [100% #REALNEWS / NO #FAKENEWS] The Vicious Collective research team have been wading through the quagmire of truth and corrupt information - AKA The ecto-news-plasm since January of this year, producing #VICIOUSDAILY 5 days a week. We now present our findings from the first 3 months accompanied by insipid scrib

Next week Vicious Collective's Paris stationed photographer Ben Palmer has yet another exhibition. Together with long-time collaborators Night On My Mind On home turf: London, NW1. Presenting their latest zine of 35mm photography. This time turning our attention to creatures great, small, winged, submerged, loyal, feral, majestic and all too often misunderstood- A long overdue tribute to our furry friends and urban cohabitants. On the 8th of December at an undisclosed l

A group show entitled ‘Devil’s Advocate III’ brings five visual artists together in works which feature underground London iconoclasts, Renaissance characters, and common people. We met with the artists to see what ‘playing the devil’s advocate’ means to them, and why in the contemporary world of social media, it’s important for challenging art spaces to exist. L - R: Terry Palamara, Scarlett Saunders, Jamiu Agboke, Conrad Armstrong, RJ Davis You could mistake Bermondsey’s B

Inspired by the austere and cold city which they call home, Armstrong + Field developed this illustrated story of the unforgiving chartered Thames. Illustration: Armstrong Story: Field #snow #london #dystopia #comic #illustration #armstrongfield #londonweather

SHADOWPLAY is a short film by London based artist Conrad Armstrong. The film is part of a new body of work called PROGRESS in which Conrad wishes to explore the idea of Progress and the varying and transient perceptions that we have of it within our society - to try and get to the heart of what PROGRESS really means. The film focuses on personal themes of transience, London, childhood and cyclical change within the context of the idea that 'the rocking horse is in constant mo

"DEFIANCE" Paper Collage, 2014, Ben Palmer FUTILITY: FUTILITY presents a reportage on the recurrent opposition to political and religious allegiance; Both of which distract from greater issues and impede positive unified solution to them. With these photos I also attempt to interpret some of my society's most dangerous flaws; Apathy, misguided rage & pride, lack of civil responsibility and the perpetuation of stereotypes. Ultimately, the apparent futility of not just violent

Milestone 1. 16.07.15 London – Paris. A short march compounded my aches. I must endeavour to keep up my momentum and burgeoning strength. I arrived at Victoria coach station to find festival mess. No, Chaos. And beautiful promising teenagers. Stealthily tallying their prospective counterparts. Contending with the new liberations of adulthood and residual hesitance of institutional adolescence. Meanwhile I stood stoically sweating in the queue for a check-in that materiali

In the run-up to the London Olympics in 2012, those pesky kids Armstrong + Field went to town with their thoughts on upcoming spectacle reshaping London. In this catch-all strip, Terry Wogan is alive and kicking, and Ken Livingstone gets tomatoed. Illustration: Armstrong Story: Field #comic #conradarmstrong #london #johnvicious #olympics #borisjohnson #games #satire #armstrongfield