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GILBERT & GEORGE met in 1967 at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London and developed their signature ‘living sculptures’ by walking the city’s streets. Since then, they have lived and worked together as two people, but one artist – their individual identities subsumed as they became representations of the human condition, a central theme in their artwork.

GILBERT & GEORGE’S photocollage work COMMIT NO NUISANCE announces their motto of ‘ART FOR ALL.’ It is firmly based in their experience of where they live during the COVID 19 pandemic.

Shortly after art school, GILBERT & GEORGE moved to Spitalfields in London’s East End, then a bustling immigrant and working-class neighbourhood, and this has been where their home and studio has been located for 50 years. The changing nature of the neighbourhood over five decades testifies to GILBERT & GEORGE’S

response to the socio-political and urban transformation of East London.

COMMIT NO NUISANCE shows their response to how people live near Christ Church, the renowned heritage building, which is one of London’s most important baroque buildings. During the COVID 19 pandemic the area surrounding it remains as seedy and sleazy as it was during the late 18th century.