Photos Of Darren Cullen And Stuff In His Studio by Maxwell Anderson

In this new zine, photographer Maxwell Anderson visited Darren during the final week of his south east London studio, before being evicted to make way for an unaffordable housing development. Utilising a Metz flash, the images are reminiscent of crime scene photography, capturing the studio in a manic state of flux, alongside portraits of Darren amongst the chaos, still working in the space while preparing to be evicted.

Darren Cullen is an artist, illustrator and activist, working under the alias Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives, creating satirical installation and site specific work. Cullen’s breakthrough was his installation ‘Pocket Money Loans’ at Banksy’s Dismaland in 2015, and in 2019 he co-curated the Museum of Neoliberalism with Gavin Grindon. You will commonly find Cullen holding his ‘Don’t Talk To Them’ placard behind blue-bib intelligence officers at protests and demonstrations. For his most recent touring installation, Hell Bus, Cullen converted an old bus in to a museum challenging corporations’ influence on climate change, which he presented at Glastonbury festival. Cullen established his studio in an ex highstreet bank in south east London in 2015, which later became home to the Museum.