David Mabb is an artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

David Mabb has a habit of crashing art history parties uninvited. He rips apart old paintings and wallpapers by hand, then slaps in bits from Soviet propaganda posters and Morris & Co. textiles. The result looks like a design magazine met a history textbook at a car crash.

Why this matters? Because he’s asking: who gets to decide what counts as art, and why do we keep recycling the same old ideas? If you like spotting the odd mismatch, look up Morris/Honeysuckle, Rodchenko/Hard Currency, the floral meets the five-year plan in one print.