Original protest poster, I Shoplift Therefore I Am, by Carrie Reichardt & Bob Osborne, published by flyingleaps (2017). Signed, numbered and dated on the reverse (from an edition of 300).

Established in 2016, the flyingleaps project works with established and emerging artists to “introduce fresh voices into the ‘visual conversations’ that echo round our cities”. This is achieved by exhibiting artists’ work on street poster sites to make “unexpected and thought-provoking contributions to the urban spectacle”.

Over the years we (at C20th Posters) have been delighted to spot these typically temporary displays in London and elsewhere and have collected several examples as a record of the urban poster landscape in the 21st Century. All the examples offered for sale via C20th Posters have been supplied directly by flyingleaps.

“Reichardt and Osborne together produce art that is witty and scurrilous. Their defacement of 50’s and 60’s ‘glamour girl’ playing cards: animal masks, tattoos, wording from call girl cards, scuttling cockroaches, skulls and pills range across ‘pin-up’ portraits that nowadays appear almost soothingly wholesome.”