Modern life is rubbish

Fifty years on from the birth of 'Pop Art', many of today's artists see consumer culture very differently.

Where once artists celebrated the image of Omo, Daz and Hoover - paintings packed with images of consumer goods - nowadays the feeling is one of escape. Artists are concerned that global multi-national brands are eating us up.

They see the world as a packaged product - from Coke to Nike to McDondald's.

And this lonely and packaged world is illustrated to great effect in Perverse Pop, a show that wears its anti-consumer heart on its sleeve.

Gareth Morgan has painted a munching, McDonald's drone, David Hancock paints disaffected teens locked away in their bedrooms with their Marilyn Manson posters, while cult graffiti artist Banksy brings his anti-establishment spray work into the gallery.

If the thought of a Big Mac turns your stomach, this exhibition is for you.

Perverse Pop
Catto Contemporary, EC2
February 22 - March 23
10am-6pm Monday-Friday, noon-6pm Saturday, admission free.
020 7729 0555.