sing pirate radio as an inspirational focal point, perennially lauded artist/designer Ben Drury's "Trust Me London" exhibition at Stockholm's Beneath gallery has an remarkably distinctive flavor. Stark detailed images of antennae provide a dark, clandestine undertone that mingles with more playful designs based around radiowaves and radio chatter (one print reads: Who likes this one? Listen! Big up the private numbers...). Forever tied to his defining work for Mo'Wax, this collection of work along with recent designs for road royalty like Dizzee, Wiley and Newham Generals and Will Bankhead and Emmet Keane¹s clothing line, Answer. The imagery from the exhibition has also been tied into a Nike pack called Air U Breathe which includes one of their in-demand Windrunner jackets emblazoned with a large graphic of one of Drury's broadcasting antennae.

"All the work in the show is informed by my love of pirate radio," says Drury, "it's part of a much larger, ongoing body of work, forming a personal graphic interpretation of all aspects of the field - past, present and future, technical and ethereal, truth and fantasy. I have an essentially romantic view of the whole enterprise, championing the renegade spirit and celebrating the subterfuge required to broadcast the message to the masses on one level, while documenting the absurd slang, a pirate vernacular which is barked over the airwaves of london. that the medium itself has little visual identity to call it's own, I've seen as an opportunity to take it on as a personal brief."

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