Bun The Tories

​Art-led campaign, printed matter and public intervention — 2016

Participatory graphic campaign using humour, print and distribution as political intervention.
Bun The Tories began in 2016 as an art-led response to the political climate in the UK and the renewed sense of optimism among younger voters during the rise of Corbynism. Rather than positioning the work as protest, the project used humour, graphic language and circulation to engage people who were politically disengaged or disillusioned.

The campaign centred on printed stickers and T-shirts, designed as bold, accessible objects intended to circulate quickly through social spaces, streets and online platforms. As a condition of receiving free stickers, participants were asked to register to vote and share confirmation of registration, linking the distribution of the work directly to civic participation.

Alongside this, T-shirts were sold with all profits donated to homeless charities, embedding fundraising into the project’s structure rather than treating it as a secondary outcome. Over the course of the campaign, more than £3,500 was raised for homelessness support.

As the work spread, Bun The Tories moved beyond a single artwork into a distributed intervention, operating across print, social media and public space. The campaign gained significant traction online, demonstrating how graphic practice, humour and participation can be used as tools for political engagement outside traditional activist frameworks.
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Presented here as an art-led intervention that prioritised distribution, participation and outcome over authorship.