SaveArtSpace presents Animal Liberation, a public art exhibition in New York City starting August 29, 2022!

Animal Liberation selected artists are Camila Rosa, Kate Louise Powell, & Philip McCulloch-Downs.

Animal Liberation is for those who believe that freedom is a right that we all have regardless of the species. We want to celebrate freedom and the struggle behind it!

Billions of animals are killed every year for fashion, experiments, food, cruel bloodsports and an uncountable number of products that are made and sold everyday in the world.

Animals deserve to live free just like us, and we can help their voices to be heard and speak up louder.

Curated by Praxis Vgz.

During the week of August 29, 2022, SaveArtSpace launched public art installations for each selected work on billboard ad spaces around NYC. The public art will be on view for at least one month.

Selected Artists

Location: W 46th St & 12th Ave, Manhattan

Camila Rosa is a Brazilian Artist and Illustrator based in Sao Paulo. Vegan since 2005, she started her life as an artist in 2010 with a female street art collective and since then she has worked worldwide in advertising, editorial, art exhibitions, fashion, beauty, and graphic design. Her work approaches social issues and subjects she cares about from an alternative perspective.

Recently, as an outspread of her practice, Camila has also been painting murals for commercial and personal projects.

Her client experience includes Apple, Nike, Spotify, Adidas, The Wall Street Journal, WeTransfer, The New York Times, and many others. Camila's work was featured in exhibitions worldwide such as Hear Our Voice by Amplifier.org + Women’s March (US), Ten Years of Social (UK), When She Rises (US), Soft Heart (HK), etc.

Connect with Camila on Instagram at @camixvx.

Kate Louise Powell The Soul Is The Same, Can They Suffer?, What They Must Endure

Location: Morgan Ave & Harrison Pl, Brooklyn

Kate Louise Powell is a freelance artist and animal rights activist currently based in Glasgow. Kate has been vegan since 2015 and started making animal rights art in 2016, towards the end of her illustration degree at the university of Edinburgh. She creates illustrations with traditional mediums - namely coloured pencil, HB pencil, ink brush pen, and very occasionally paint. Her animal rights work tends to either celebrate non-human animals in all their glory, or draw attention to their plight in a way that isn’t overly graphic, staying in the realm of being provocative without resorting to shock-tactics.

Connect with Kate on Instagram at @katelouisepowell.

Location: W 125th St & 12th Ave, Manhattan

Philip McCulloch-Downs is a vegan artist based in Somerset in the UK. He has spent all his adult life exploring and refining his creative skills and has learned how to process the varied experiences of everyday life through his art, video-making, novels and poetry. This body of work is continuously evolving and entirely personal, forming a visual diary of his life.

Since 2014 his artwork has entered the world of veganism and animal rights. His series of uncompromising paintings 'Moving Pictures' attempt to dignify the creatures we abuse and to bear witness to their suffering by recording it with accuracy, empathy and compassion. He also produces vibrantly coloured and highly detailed pieces in ink and acrylic paint that celebrate the beauty and majesty of free-living wildlife.

He was one of the very first members of the worldwide collective 'The Art of Compassion Project' and has exhibited his art prints with that group at Vegfests and vegan events all over the world, including the International Animal Rights Conference in Luxembourg. In 2020, he and fellow AOCP artist Helen Barker created the online gallery 'Agitate Art' on Youtube, as a showcase for all forms of 'Protest Art'.

Connect with Philip on Instagram at @vegan_artivist.

Curator

Location: Jackson Ave & Pulaski Bridge, Queens

Praxis Vgz, a South American stencil artist, graphic designer and illustrator, started in 2009 in Bogotá, Colombia and moved to New York City in 2014.

With animal rights and music as the focal point, Praxis is an independent graphic project that develops and creates visual content through art and design that aims to inform and engage with different types of audience to create awareness about multiple issues around animal rights.

Influenced by punk rock culture, animal rights, pop culture, and street art, Praxis focuses on the use of art and public space to engage not only with the common citizen but focused on the new generations, as well to invite them to use art and creativity to fight against animal abuse and as a way to campaign locally in favor of animal welfare.

These past years, Praxis have collaborated with different animal rights organizations, charities and cruelty free companies through art and design.

Connect with Praxis on Instagram at @praxis_vgz.

Participating Organizations

Founded in 2015, SaveArtSpace is a non-profit organization that works to create an urban gallery experience, launching exhibitions that address intersectional themes and foster a progressive message of social change. By placing culture over commercialism, SaveArtSpace aims to empower artists from all walks of life and inspire a new generation of young creatives and activists.