About

Lester Blunt About

I am a London based, graphic designer and artist. My artistic practice involves the manipulation and re-contextualisation of found imagery, and I work within collage, assemblage and screenprint. My fascination with the visual and historical legacy that found imagery contains, and how it can be reinterpreted and reimagined to explore modern narratives and themes, unites my disciplines.

Loaded, my current long-term project, is a multi-faceted exploration of gun culture in America and involves the creation of narratives that examine the omnipresence of guns throughout American life. Clearly one of the most controversial and divisive issues in contemporary USA, I examine how the normalisation of guns in society is intertwined with the tenets of liberty, patriotism and religion. Working within the disciplines of print, collage and assemblage, I combine found photography with discarded by-products and patriotic iconography, dissecting America's complicated relationship with guns.