LEFT IN VISION 4 – COMMENTS BOOK
Left in Vision 4 was a major success. Over 200 attended the Launch and we had to move to a bigger space. There was also a very high attendance of people throughout the five days. The show was very enthusiastically received as can be seen in the Comments Book below. Photographs to follow'
So a very big thank you to every one who contributed.
LEFT IN VISION 4 – COMMENTS BOOK
Even better than last year’s! I especially liked ol’ Benito!! Excellent, comrades!
Tim Evans
This is a show to Lift the Heart AS WELL AS the Politics!!
Maureen Delenian
Great selection – political – brilliant antidote to mainstream art – fantastic curation. Well done John
Deni xx
It’s even better than last year! A reflective, sharp atmosphere, inventive collection and sense of wild possibilities. The inner world interacts with the outer. Thanks to everyone, I especially love the leaning cabinet, the hanging effigies and the May Ayres ceramic sculpture.
Nicole Field
This is our first year here. Excellent exhibition.
Jon Bailes, Ethan Aksan, State of Nature Journal
Thank you for your exhibition. On my journey I start to think about anti-consumerism.
Onanong
Wonderful and complex.
Riaz Ahmed
What to write, as an art historian in training it’s refreshing to see art with an explicit left basis.
H
It’s great that art is seen as Marxism. Political art is an absolute necessity for a serious political organisation.
E.P
Amazing art:
Aja S from Macedonia
This is the best – well done
Fred from Swansea
Love the Red Saunders! and ‘All you fascists are bound to lose’.
(We’re from Bradford)
Fantastic work. I enjoyed lots thanks.
Excellent exhibitions – real quality. See you at the opening.
Sherrl
Excellent to see it. Hope the project continues.
Ken Devine
Very good work – loved it!
Isabel
Interesting show – great variety of work.
Ginny
May Ayres Ceramic ‘Pro- Consul’ - in a Socialist World would have pride of place in Tate Modern!
Great exhibition hope to see it in every Marxism.
Bassen
Lebanon
Very interesting and inspiring. I appreciate every effort made in creating such fantastic space.
Fouad
From Iraq
WOW – I will be back
Annie
Very stimulating
Connor Donnally
What we need the more painters and other can do it.
Very interesting, provocative. Thank you
Maria Emery
Excellent show, some really powerful works. Thank you
BRILLIANT! WE WANT THIS AGAIN!!
The work is better than ever – but not enough of it.
Gary Critchley -What an artist to emerge from that environment. Hope Left in Vision will carry on after John’s retirement. We owe it to him as a tribute for all he’s done.
Pauline
Excellent show – very stimulating and thought provoking.
Chris
Ditto
Leo
Very interesting and well curated show!
M. Wydler
It is wonderful art. All of it is talking in different ways.
Maher Deyab
Very interesting representation of lots of important and practical issues and social problems. Thank you
Ashraf Abdelhay
Interesting
Anthony
Interesting work overall, especially Zita and Antonietta’s work. Also John Levett’s photography is interesting.
Wonderful exhibition – need more art exhibitions displaying the work of Marx in the left. Thank you for including my art. Zeta
P.S. Would have liked to have seen Antonietta’s art on display not just in slides.
Well done guys!
Really love the work big up!
The Negroponte sculpture is just amazing. Thanks to everyone and particularly the great John Molyneux.
M.B.
Extremely good show.
Richie Peacock
A lovely show with the depths and breadths of the struggle. Good to have seen.
Gillian Noel
Great show – lots of variety and emotional – passionate. Thanks
E. Shirley
Fantastic!
Hans Pudner
South Wales
Very interesting, need to spend more time here. Thanks
Really enjoyed the quiet of looking around! So good to see here at Marxism!
Brilliant and enjoyable, very inspired by the Fascism 2010.
Very good – I like.
R McFarlane
Very well done once more.
Best wishes
Jenny Walden
Love it all thanks for great inspirational work.
Very nice, I always enjoy a wonky cupboard.
Thought provoking – especially sculpture
Chanie Rosenberg
Need to come and see the ‘Left in Vision’ again.
I enjoyeded this presentation, thought provoking. The video ‘Going Up North’ was lovely.
Thanks Brenda
Thanks, this was very enjoyable and engaging.
Some very distressing themes treated in a powerful way.
Many thanks
Mike Champion
Thought provoking, uplifting, interactive
Great to see Marxism in art. I only wish it wasn’t a focus once a year. Why can’t we take this further?
Anthony Elliott
I’m a film scholar and was really pleased to see you had an AV section – the film by the 8 year old is wonderful! But fantastic exhibition more generally too, as always.
S Bould
Inspiring pieces – and thought provoking. I liked many of them but Leon’s images was/is very powerful.
Chris Kelly
It just keeps getting better – love the many perspectives – very inspiring.
Jacqui Miller
For the future we must never forget the past horrors of injustice.
Gerry Conlon
Keep up the good work of displaying committed art work at Marxism.
Mike Stirland
A good experience as always. A bigger room next year?
Debbie Rolls
Loved the tit box, very interesting.
Thank you very much for this very touching and inspiring exhibition. There is a very brilliant mixture of art and artists in this exhibition leading to a wide range of emotion: fear, sorrow, fighting-spirit, a great deal of humour and … how can I call it … self-reflecting possibilities.
Frances,
Cologne, Germany
This exhibition is great – expresses a wide range of emotion.
Fantastic keep on keep on!
This exhibition is really impressive and it is fascinating the different styles of radical art displayed.
Sheila Rowbotham
Thought provoking – my thoughts exactly about bankers and on David and Nick.
Theresa
London
I enjoyed the exhibition very much
Jhoselin Loza
Very insightful and useful, hope you carry on the good work.
J
Love it Dale!
A Stennett
Birmingham
Great stuff – Art for resistance. That’s how it should be. I am so liberated as I don’t believe in capitalism.
Well done Zita. Love also the ‘Poverty’ sculpture and all.
A very informative and fantastically relevant exhibition. Hooray to Zita for her exhibits and Fred for ‘Marching to Freedom’. Brilliant anti fascist material here today.
MC
Thought provoking, politically diverse works of art which left me reeling, smiling and frowning.
Peace
Benita
Amazing
C. Campbell
Fantastic work.
Very skilled and beautiful work. May God (Lord Jesus Christ) come back soon and end all suffering as we repent.
Linda P
Very good and inspiring. More of this please!
Ammedy
Wonderful! Let there be more!
Lots of really invigorating art, especially when you consider how much dry and uncaring work gets out, gets paid millions for in the mainstream. Definitely enjoyed Fred Whitby’s agitprop.
Soren Goard
Thank you
Ella
Fantastic – thanks for organising this.
Such an important part of Marxism – bigger next year please!
Some brilliant stuff – lots of quality and range.
Martin Adams
I think when the works are engaged with the materiality of the injustice and crime, their ideas are better transformed and become more effective. Well done to the artist and organizers who worked for such a forgotten/ignored vision of the world.
An amazing exhibition really loved it; and looking forward to share such good sculpting, painting, installations. Just keep inspiring us!
Selma
NPR France
Moving, chilling and provocative – a great exhibitions.
S Magorian
Fantastic exhibition – especially The Gypsies. It reminded me of Van Gogh’s ‘Potato Eaters’ – lovely. The Hitler picture was also one of my favourites because it is so clear what he did and his crimes, and you have got him and pinned him against the wall. Love it. The other side with Nick Griffin too shows what a demented and backward thing he represents, in his face too. Brilliant. It is all good.
Am glad to have seen it this year at Marxism as I was initially very disappointed in not getting my stuff included. However, it was a good lesson in not being to precious about ones work and seeing the exhibition gave me a boost to think about starting to produce work again. This exhibition needs to visited at least three or four times as there is so much to see. Well done everyone – I loved it.
Sophie Jongman, Kent
Excellent, powerful, creative and thought provoking – a treat for the intellectual senses!!
Well done!!
Some of the pieces made me laugh, some made me want to cry and they all made me think.
Thank you
Sarah Cox
Needs to be more widely shown.
Please keep up the tradition or radical left art – we need it!
All the best.
Sadie, Australia
Very good. We need more lefty art. Keep it up.
Jim Roche (Irish Anti War Movement)
Sort of encapsulates a few thoughts I have – very creative.
S Elliott
Whitstable
More explicitly political than previous exhibitions – not necessarily better (or worse) but more a sign of the times. We need this work.
Great
Danielle Darby
Thank you. Interesting as always. Please come again next year.
Lovely
Fine and interesting exhibition.
Thomas W
Excellent
Excellent as always! I particularly like The Pro Consul
Penny Foskett
Could have done with more explanation from the artists of what they were trying to say – also mostly negative/horrific – could do with more hope.
David Hughes
Very interesting … quite a variety in a small exhibition.
Jan Friday
Long live revolutionary art.
Ian Birchall
I appreciated listening to the music while looking at the slideshow. Also like the ‘Footprints’ by Kim.
Jasmina
Some interesting work – good to see prisoners work on show. Like the theme of historical portraits of ‘our’ hero’s time to take them back.
Matt
Awesome, have one every year! More diversity and more descriptions/explanations the better. Have artist’s email too.
N
Fantastic, great work, would have liked more context or comment or just biography – it really helps to understand.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Andrew Smith
Even more wonderful than last year – keep on keeping on with it. Loved the gypsies.
Anna x
Good stuff – keep creating!
Ewa
I applaud the work and achievement. Quite a mixed bunch in terms of what ‘worked’ for me. As others have said more context would be helpful.
Look forward to next year’s!
Colin F
Thanks for an excellent show.
Leon Kuhn
Great to see work and comrades. Love Tony Cliff sculpture
Good job – keep up the good work.
Jon
Fantastic show, please repeat next year!
N. Brute
It’s not really about liking us, not liking, but I’ll say that what excited me were the sculptures rather than the photos/drawings/paintings.
Please come back next year (maybe even with art that is not just built in spectatorship but on interaction or participation as well)!
Viva La Revolution
Patrick
Nice stuff! We need more of this.
Phoebe
Fabulous to have this here!
Ian
Dear John
Thank you for your brilliant lecture on Michelangelo and for one of those who organised the exhibition ‘Left in Vision’.
Yes, art can change things yes, art can be revolutionary and yes, together with other factions art can make socialism!
Ivor Jordre, Marxist and painter, Norway.
Really great to see how this show has developed over the years with all this interesting work. Keep it up!
Penny
Brilliant exhibit! A superb collection of works that I feel are sadly not very likely to be collected elsewhere. It would be wonderful to have a ‘Left of Vision’ webpage where we could share these works with more people throughout the course of the year.
Thank you
Joshua, Glasgow
Great Art
Dear John
One passed by.
Now, I thought it was going to be pretentious student toss but it was great! The Fred Whitby ‘Marching to Freedom’ is amazing.
Well done.
Marcus
A stunning exhibition, witty, thought provoking
Well done John
Hannah
John Thanx for all your hard work.
Mick Lynes
Many, many thanks John for another wonderful show.
May
Excellent show, very impressed with the range of work and the imagination expressed.
Ian S
Very impressive!!
Alexander Ling
Even better than last year’s! I especially liked ol’ Benito!! Excellent, comrades!
Tim Evans
This is a show to Lift the Heart AS WELL AS the Politics!!
Maureen Delenian
Great selection – political – brilliant antidote to mainstream art – fantastic curation. Well done John
Deni xx
It’s even better than last year! A reflective, sharp atmosphere, inventive collection and sense of wild possibilities. The inner world interacts with the outer. Thanks to everyone, I especially love the leaning cabinet, the hanging effigies and the May Ayres ceramic sculpture.
Nicole Field
This is our first year here. Excellent exhibition.
Jon Bailes, Ethan Aksan, State of Nature Journal
Thank you for your exhibition. On my journey I start to think about anti-consumerism.
Onanong
Wonderful and complex.
Riaz Ahmed
What to write, as an art historian in training it’s refreshing to see art with an explicit left basis.
H
It’s great that art is seen as Marxism. Political art is an absolute necessity for a serious political organisation.
E.P
Amazing art:
Aja S from Macedonia
This is the best – well done
Fred from Swansea
Love the Red Saunders! and ‘All you fascists are bound to lose’.
(We’re from Bradford)
Fantastic work. I enjoyed lots thanks.
Excellent exhibitions – real quality. See you at the opening.
Sherrl
Excellent to see it. Hope the project continues.
Ken Devine
Very good work – loved it!
Isabel
Interesting show – great variety of work.
Ginny
May Ayres Ceramic ‘Pro- Consul’ - in a Socialist World would have pride of place in Tate Modern!
Great exhibition hope to see it in every Marxism.
Bassen
Lebanon
Very interesting and inspiring. I appreciate every effort made in creating such fantastic space.
Fouad
From Iraq
WOW – I will be back
Annie
Very stimulating
Connor Donnally
What we need the more painters and other can do it.
Very interesting, provocative. Thank you
Maria Emery
Excellent show, some really powerful works. Thank you
BRILLIANT! WE WANT THIS AGAIN!!
The work is better than ever – but not enough of it.
Gary Critchley -What an artist to emerge from that environment. Hope Left in Vision will carry on after John’s retirement. We owe it to him as a tribute for all he’s done.
Pauline
Excellent show – very stimulating and thought provoking.
Chris
Ditto
Leo
Very interesting and well curated show!
M. Wydler
It is wonderful art. All of it is talking in different ways.
Maher Deyab
Very interesting representation of lots of important and practical issues and social problems. Thank you
Ashraf Abdelhay
Interesting
Anthony
Interesting work overall, especially Zita and Antonietta’s work. Also John Levett’s photography is interesting.
Wonderful exhibition – need more art exhibitions displaying the work of Marx in the left. Thank you for including my art. Zeta
P.S. Would have liked to have seen Antonietta’s art on display not just in slides.
Well done guys!
Really love the work big up!
The Negroponte sculpture is just amazing. Thanks to everyone and particularly the great John Molyneux.
M.B.
Extremely good show.
Richie Peacock
A lovely show with the depths and breadths of the struggle. Good to have seen.
Gillian Noel
Great show – lots of variety and emotional – passionate. Thanks
E. Shirley
Fantastic!
Hans Pudner
South Wales
Very interesting, need to spend more time here. Thanks
Really enjoyed the quiet of looking around! So good to see here at Marxism!
Brilliant and enjoyable, very inspired by the Fascism 2010.
Very good – I like.
R McFarlane
Very well done once more.
Best wishes
Jenny Walden
Love it all thanks for great inspirational work.
Very nice, I always enjoy a wonky cupboard.
Thought provoking – especially sculpture
Chanie Rosenberg
Need to come and see the ‘Left in Vision’ again.
I enjoyeded this presentation, thought provoking. The video ‘Going Up North’ was lovely.
Thanks Brenda
Thanks, this was very enjoyable and engaging.
Some very distressing themes treated in a powerful way.
Many thanks
Mike Champion
Thought provoking, uplifting, interactive
Great to see Marxism in art. I only wish it wasn’t a focus once a year. Why can’t we take this further?
Anthony Elliott
I’m a film scholar and was really pleased to see you had an AV section – the film by the 8 year old is wonderful! But fantastic exhibition more generally too, as always.
S Bould
Inspiring pieces – and thought provoking. I liked many of them but Leon’s images was/is very powerful.
Chris Kelly
It just keeps getting better – love the many perspectives – very inspiring.
Jacqui Miller
For the future we must never forget the past horrors of injustice.
Gerry Conlon
Keep up the good work of displaying committed art work at Marxism.
Mike Stirland
A good experience as always. A bigger room next year?
Debbie Rolls
Loved the tit box, very interesting.
Thank you very much for this very touching and inspiring exhibition. There is a very brilliant mixture of art and artists in this exhibition leading to a wide range of emotion: fear, sorrow, fighting-spirit, a great deal of humour and … how can I call it … self-reflecting possibilities.
Frances,
Cologne, Germany
This exhibition is great – expresses a wide range of emotion.
Fantastic keep on keep on!
This exhibition is really impressive and it is fascinating the different styles of radical art displayed.
Sheila Rowbotham
Thought provoking – my thoughts exactly about bankers and on David and Nick.
Theresa
London
I enjoyed the exhibition very much
Jhoselin Loza
Very insightful and useful, hope you carry on the good work.
J
Love it Dale!
A Stennett
Birmingham
Great stuff – Art for resistance. That’s how it should be. I am so liberated as I don’t believe in capitalism.
Well done Zita. Love also the ‘Poverty’ sculpture and all.
A very informative and fantastically relevant exhibition. Hooray to Zita for her exhibits and Fred for ‘Marching to Freedom’. Brilliant anti fascist material here today.
MC
Thought provoking, politically diverse works of art which left me reeling, smiling and frowning.
Peace
Benita
Amazing
C. Campbell
Fantastic work.
Very skilled and beautiful work. May God (Lord Jesus Christ) come back soon and end all suffering as we repent.
Linda P
Very good and inspiring. More of this please!
Ammedy
Wonderful! Let there be more!
Lots of really invigorating art, especially when you consider how much dry and uncaring work gets out, gets paid millions for in the mainstream. Definitely enjoyed Fred Whitby’s agitprop.
Soren Goard
Thank you
Ella
Fantastic – thanks for organising this.
Such an important part of Marxism – bigger next year please!
Some brilliant stuff – lots of quality and range.
Martin Adams
I think when the works are engaged with the materiality of the injustice and crime, their ideas are better transformed and become more effective. Well done to the artist and organizers who worked for such a forgotten/ignored vision of the world.
An amazing exhibition really loved it; and looking forward to share such good sculpting, painting, installations. Just keep inspiring us!
Selma
NPR France
Moving, chilling and provocative – a great exhibitions.
S Magorian
Fantastic exhibition – especially The Gypsies. It reminded me of Van Gogh’s ‘Potato Eaters’ – lovely. The Hitler picture was also one of my favourites because it is so clear what he did and his crimes, and you have got him and pinned him against the wall. Love it. The other side with Nick Griffin too shows what a demented and backward thing he represents, in his face too. Brilliant. It is all good.
Am glad to have seen it this year at Marxism as I was initially very disappointed in not getting my stuff included. However, it was a good lesson in not being to precious about ones work and seeing the exhibition gave me a boost to think about starting to produce work again. This exhibition needs to visited at least three or four times as there is so much to see. Well done everyone – I loved it.
Sophie Jongman, Kent
Excellent, powerful, creative and thought provoking – a treat for the intellectual senses!!
Well done!!
Some of the pieces made me laugh, some made me want to cry and they all made me think.
Thank you
Sarah Cox
Needs to be more widely shown.
Please keep up the tradition or radical left art – we need it!
All the best.
Sadie, Australia
Very good. We need more lefty art. Keep it up.
Jim Roche (Irish Anti War Movement)
Sort of encapsulates a few thoughts I have – very creative.
S Elliott
Whitstable
More explicitly political than previous exhibitions – not necessarily better (or worse) but more a sign of the times. We need this work.
Great
Danielle Darby
Thank you. Interesting as always. Please come again next year.
Lovely
Fine and interesting exhibition.
Thomas W
Excellent
Excellent as always! I particularly like The Pro Consul
Penny Foskett
Could have done with more explanation from the artists of what they were trying to say – also mostly negative/horrific – could do with more hope.
David Hughes
Very interesting … quite a variety in a small exhibition.
Jan Friday
Long live revolutionary art.
Ian Birchall
I appreciated listening to the music while looking at the slideshow. Also like the ‘Footprints’ by Kim.
Jasmina
Some interesting work – good to see prisoners work on show. Like the theme of historical portraits of ‘our’ hero’s time to take them back.
Matt
Awesome, have one every year! More diversity and more descriptions/explanations the better. Have artist’s email too.
N
Fantastic, great work, would have liked more context or comment or just biography – it really helps to understand.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Andrew Smith
Even more wonderful than last year – keep on keeping on with it. Loved the gypsies.
Anna x
Good stuff – keep creating!
Ewa
I applaud the work and achievement. Quite a mixed bunch in terms of what ‘worked’ for me. As others have said more context would be helpful.
Look forward to next year’s!
Colin F
Thanks for an excellent show.
Leon Kuhn
Great to see work and comrades. Love Tony Cliff sculpture
Good job – keep up the good work.
Jon
Fantastic show, please repeat next year!
N. Brute
It’s not really about liking us, not liking, but I’ll say that what excited me were the sculptures rather than the photos/drawings/paintings.
Please come back next year (maybe even with art that is not just built in spectatorship but on interaction or participation as well)!
Viva La Revolution
Patrick
Nice stuff! We need more of this.
Phoebe
Fabulous to have this here!
Ian
Dear John
Thank you for your brilliant lecture on Michelangelo and for one of those who organised the exhibition ‘Left in Vision’.
Yes, art can change things yes, art can be revolutionary and yes, together with other factions art can make socialism!
Ivor Jordre, Marxist and painter, Norway.
Really great to see how this show has developed over the years with all this interesting work. Keep it up!
Penny
Brilliant exhibit! A superb collection of works that I feel are sadly not very likely to be collected elsewhere. It would be wonderful to have a ‘Left of Vision’ webpage where we could share these works with more people throughout the course of the year.
Thank you
Joshua, Glasgow
Great Art
Dear John
One passed by.
Now, I thought it was going to be pretentious student toss but it was great! The Fred Whitby ‘Marching to Freedom’ is amazing.
Well done.
Marcus
A stunning exhibition, witty, thought provoking
Well done John
Hannah
John Thanx for all your hard work.
Mick Lynes
Many, many thanks John for another wonderful show.
May
Excellent show, very impressed with the range of work and the imagination expressed.
Ian S
Very impressive!!
Alexander Ling
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