CutUP Collective

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CutUP (also known as CutUP Collective) is a group of London-based artists, whose work mainly revolves around the manipulation of billboard advertisements.[1] Their first works consisted of removing a billboard, painstakingly cutting it up into roughly 4000 small rectangles, each one in essence a pixel, and then reassembling the billboard.[2][3]

More recently, CutUP have started other projects, such as replacing small bus-shelter advertisements with a drilled sheet of wood. The illuminating back lights that turn on at dusk reveal an image, as the many holes light up against the dark background.

Although they mainly deal with art on the street, the group have also created installations, including setting 96 different alarm clocks one a minute apart and sound installations, made up of 94 speakers, mini disks and circuit boards.

## Shows and exhibitions

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Cutup have held shows in London, New York and Barcelona, including two shows at London's Seventeen Gallery,[4] including a recent show which exhibited a full size billboard and a bus shelter, brought inside especially for the show, as well as related video and film pieces.

Other shows have included "La Vida Te Espera" at NIU Gallery, Barcelona in June 2006, "Satellites", at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York and a show at the Kemistry Gallery in Shoreditch.

## Members

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Vicky Thornton and Jim Woodall were among the founding members of CutUP.[5][6]

## See also

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* Guerilla art
* List of street artists
* Graffiti
* Street art
* Wooster Collective

## References

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1. ^ Markussen, Thomas (15 June 2012). "CutUP Collective: The disruptive aesthetics of hijacking urban space". Journal of Aesthetics and Culture. 4. doi:10.3402/jac.v4i0.18157. S2CID 145157774. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
2. ^ Gavin, Francesca (16 July 2008). "Enough of this jokey approach to street art". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
3. ^ Higgins, Sorina (24 September 2010). "The New Where and How of Art". Curator Magazine. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
4. ^ "Cut Up, Out of the Ruins of the Real". Seventeen Gallery. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
5. ^ "Vicki Thornton". Celeste Prize. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
6. ^ "Jim Woodall: If I Don't Have You". Matt's Gallery. Retrieved 7 May 2022.

## External links

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* Cutup homepage
* CutUp Film (2005)

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