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Shitty Gritty London
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: May 2022
Artist: Sophia Conroy-Iglesias
Dimensions:
250 × 210 mm (25 × 21 cm)
Medium: 400 page, coptic stitch bound book
Object number: GD.2023.477.CC
DescriptionBook. Description by the designer: This is Shitty Gritty London. This is real life.
Here Big Ben is a drug dealer in Kilburn, the London Eye is a CCTV camera on a lamp post
in Greenwich, and the Shard is found by the broken window of some Chicken Cottage in
Lewisham.
Here the sky is grey and the streets are dirty.
Here people struggle. They struggle every fucking second of every fucking day. They travel
miles to get to a job that doesn’t even pay half their rent. They pass toffs who turn their
noses up at just about anything worth less than their fuck-off cars.
This is about what they think. This is about the shit they leave behind.
Here Big Ben is a drug dealer in Kilburn, the London Eye is a CCTV camera on a lamp post
in Greenwich, and the Shard is found by the broken window of some Chicken Cottage in
Lewisham.
Here the sky is grey and the streets are dirty.
Here people struggle. They struggle every fucking second of every fucking day. They travel
miles to get to a job that doesn’t even pay half their rent. They pass toffs who turn their
noses up at just about anything worth less than their fuck-off cars.
This is about what they think. This is about the shit they leave behind.