Tayla McBride - Fun in a Crisis / PAF3208
After being told by an internet bro to "just get a hustle and become a millionaire — it's not that hard," Tayla decided to respond the only way that made sense: by creating the UK's saddest gallery... inside a vending machine.
She wanted to build a space for the brilliant, broke artists around her.
But there's no funding.
There's no meritocracy.
And every building with potential is either crumbling or turned into a Greggs.
So now, there's vending machines.
Because if the cultural landscape wants soulless, automated, industrialised content — we'll give it to them.
Peep Show meets Black Mirror.
The future is bleak. And conveniently coin-operated.
Each artist was commissioned for one hour, paid minimum wage (a luxury in this economy), to draw 32 pieces of recession-fuelled despair.
Each drawing is a one-off, original and sealed inside a collectible keychain.
You can keep it. Or gift it to someone you quietly resent.
Either way:
Congratulations. You've just collected a souvenir of the national decline.
RRP: £2. Emotional damage not included.
Medium: Vending Machine
Dimensions: 4' x 1' x 1'
The Artist: Tayla McBride
The Official Souvenir of the UK’s National Decline. £2 keychains. Original art. Dispensed from a tired vending machine.
* Unless specified, dimensions apply to the unframed artwork.
PRSC are acting as an agent on behalf of the artist.
People's Art Fair: May Day // Fri 2 – Sun 11 May 2025
This piece was recently on show at the People’s Art Fair (PAF), a collaborative group exhibition devised and hosted by the PRSC and open to all artists. Our May Day Show ran from Friday 2 May - Sunday 11 May at PRSC, and featured around 150 works of art from nearly 60 artists, plus creative workshops, music, and events to inspire the artist in us all.
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