Apartide Apartments
Location: 18 Newport Crescent, (former Ladbrokes Store) Middlesbrough, TS1 5UA
Opening Hours: Fri 26 Sept - Sat 4 Oct (closed Mon 30 Sept & Tue 1 Oct)
Daily: 10am-4pm (Sun 12-4pm)
Access: Step free
Artists: Darren Cullen
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Darren Cullen is a satirical artist, activist, illustrator and writer. He was born in Leeds to Irish immigrant parents and is currently based in London. Cullen studied advertising at Leeds college of art, where he learnt the techniques and language of the medium but changed direction when he learnt about the ethical implication involved in this career path after moving away from advertising, Cullen moved on to study fine art at Glasgow School of Art.
In his work, Cullen used the language of advertising to communicate the empty promises of consumerism and the lies of military recruiters. Cullen has gone on to publish several comics releasing his first one in 2013 called ‘Join the army’. Cullen has also written a series of short films called "Action Man: Battlefield", to draw attention to the way the Ministry of Defence targets children as young as five with its official toy range,which includes an RAF Drone Playset.
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about the show.
An art installation disguised as an estate agency draws attention to Israel’s occupation and destruction of Palestinian land. Created by Darren Cullen under the name Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives, the work critiques what he describes as a systematic effort to erase Palestinians through mundane mechanisms like property rights and planning laws. The shop features stark imagery, including a JCB digger smashing through a wall, homes built on skulls, a bomb about to hit a Palestinian tent, and a replica rifle offered “free with every new home.” It aims to highlight the banality of violence and the complicity of international actors in ongoing atrocities.
