Freddie Yauner This Is A Red Flag at SOIL 23 January - 13 April 2025 Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA
Freddie Yauner This Is A Red Flag at SOIL 23 January - 13 April 2025 Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA Former Somerset House Studio artist Freddie Yauner has been commissioned to create a flag to coincide with SOIL, an exhibition of artworks and installations responding to the challenges of climate change, land use and waste by taking a closer look at the world beneath our feet. This Is A Red Flag with its cautionary SOS will fly above Somerset House as an urgent warning to 'Save Our Soil'. Yauner's This Is A Red Flag is inspired by William Morris who would give open air talks with a small red flag by his side. Best known for his textile patterns, the pioneering Arts and Crafts artist was also a social reformer and is considered a forerunner of the modern Green movement. Yauner's original Red Flag was first shown at the William Morris Gallery last year and will tour institutes and organisations, in...