Deploying a rich visual language born of both subtle and brash, time-worn, abraded urban surfaces – distressed walls, scrawled marks, bleach and aerosol graffiti, garish signage, flyposting, material textures galore – artist and curator Zavier Ellis has created two new flyingleaps poster prints that foreshadow issues pertinent both globally and to the 4^th of July UK election.

In Ellis’ Change (Change Now) (2024), against a black and white ground that resembles a scrubbed x-ray plate, we see two torus-like shapes. One saturated lipstick red O-ring sits atop another that’s Prussian blue. Scratched in the mottled pink and white maw of the red form, in lines that resemble marks made by a drypoint etching needle, or a compass dragged across flesh, is a symbol of eternity. At the centre of the blue form, the same painful fine linear mark-making spells out the word ‘NOW’. Scrolling top to bottom, in a heavy black candelabra type font we read ‘CHANGE’. Except never the whole word, letters are omitted or partially blotted out by raw swathes of paint.