Description: FUCK BANKING I’M GOING ARTIST is an 80 × 70 cm acrylic painting on canvas, displayed in a provocative installation across London—most pointedly in Bank and the City of London, where finance and ambition converge.
On the surface, the work is a defiant rejection of corporate life in favour of artistic freedom. Yet beneath the bold declaration lies a wry acknowledgment of an often-overlooked truth: artists and bankers are more entangled than they care to admit. The same financial system that many creatives renounce is also what underwrites their survival—whether through patrons, collectors, or the economic machinery that values and sustains art.
Confrontational and self-aware, this piece exposes the uneasy symbiosis between art and capital, posing an unspoken question: can one truly escape what one depends on?
