Greg Bunbury (1976 - ) grew up in East London, and has worked in the design industry for over 20 years. With roles as a graphic designer, creative consultant, lecturer and public speaker he heads up his company Bunbury & Co. and is the co-founder of the Black Outdoor Art project.

Frustration is a theme that echoes throughout Bunbury’s posters, I Can’t Breathe and Shout. Shout expresses the burden of expectation that Bunbury feels, both that his individual voice will represent all Black people and that he must constantly suggest (churn out) solutions for structural racism that affect Black British communities. I Can’t Breathe speaks to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, and the silenced voice of Eric Gardner who repeated the phrase 11 times before his 2014 death in New York City. This phrase gained renewed currency following the murder of George Floyd in 2020 Both of the posters address ongoing contemporary concerns around language, self-expression and visibility.

In 2020 Bunbury co-founded Black Outdoor Art, a series of billboards across London, Leeds and Bristol platforming the work of African and Caribbean creatives to inspire discussion, activism and change. Supported by outdoor advertising agency, Brotherhood Media, the first iteration of the project (2020-2022) tasked graphic artists of colour to present works at billboard scale to start conversations between designers and illustrators and their communities. Shout was created by Bunbury in 2020 as one of the first posters for the project. Bunbury’s take is that racism itself is an ideology, ‘ presented on the basis of an idea, which is then reinforced structurally’. For Bunbury “Black Outdoor Art represents the battlefield of ideas, whether it’s a political statement or something joyful or just aesthetically pleasing.” Shout is inspired by Swiss typography, and the work of Paula Scher.