Art students’ election posters: a landscape of alienation and distrust

In a collaboration with Guardian Witness, we asked students to design alternative election posters. Their work is a striking insight into what younger voters think, as well as a dead-accurate view of this election and its probable outcome

Art has a way of revealing the truth. When art students responded to an invitation by the Guardian to design election posters, they did not so much produce great political art as give a voice to some of the young voters, potential voters and non-voters whose futures will be so influenced by the outcome of next Thursday’s General Election. What do these young artists feel about the choice on offer and how do they see the parties, or, for that matter, democracy itself?

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