Our brand film celebrates the streets - the people, textures, and culture that surround our posters and shape the world we work in. It’s a glimpse through the UNCLE lens, into the places where art, music, fashion, and curiosity collide.
Check it out and more on our new website. Link in bio.
“I didn’t sign up to be a content creator. I’m a poet.”
Those are the words of Maureen Onwunali, the Dublin-born Nigerian poet whose work is resonating with in-person audiences at a growing number of poetry events, while also travelling online, as culture increasingly has for much of her 23 years.
Her poems have found people in small towns across Australia, the Americas and beyond, carrying observations on masculinity, migration, care, nightlife and the people society forgets to notice.
That makes her UNCLE collaboration, created ahead of the local elections, feel especially fitting. Inspired by Zoe Leonard’s I Want a President, Onwunali’s poem asks what kind of candidate people actually want, and what might happen if we raised our standards. It is poetry off the phone screen, off the stage and into the street.
Read the full interview via the link in @uncle_insta 's bio.
Because sometimes the best gallery is the shed on your rooftop.
Market Gallery may be hidden above the street, but it has always been shaped by the city below it - by Chinatown, by New York, by the pressures of downtown life, and by an art world in which visibility is never evenly distributed.
Founded by Adam Zhu and accessed by walking through his apartment and onto the roof, Market Gallery sits above Market Street and has become one of the more distinctive small galleries in downtown New York. That unusual route is part of the point.
“There’s a difficult space for the middle ground right now. You have your blue-chip galleries and your small galleries, and creating space for artists to express themselves without the pressures of the market is not so easy to come by.”
With UNCLE, work exhibited in the rooftop shed now comes back down onto the street, extending the gallery’s reach without losing the spirit that made it worth paying attention to in the first place.
Read the full interview via the link in @uncle_insta 's bio.
We’ve plastered London with these messages ahead of Tommy Robinson’s march tomorrow 👀
This march does NOT speak for us, and we have to come together to stand up to hate.
That’s why we’ve turned it into a fundraiser for refugees and much needed anti-racist work here in the UK.
And thanks to you we’ve raised £110k already. We’re turning hate into love.
Pledge now to turn tomorrow’s march in to real, tangible support for refugees.
Comment REFUGEES WELCOME and we’ll send you the link to donate 💛
Bristol has its own way of doing things - and Friendly Records embodies it. What started in 2016 as Tom Friend’s overflow of vinyl is now one of the city’s most loved community hubs.
More than a record shop, it’s a space for discovery, connection, and action. From supporting local artists to raising £250k for War Child with names like IDLES and Portishead - this is music with impact.
10 years in, they’re still proving independent spaces don’t just sell records - they build culture. To celebrate 10 years, they’re throwing a fundraiser party bringing it all back to what matters: community, music, and giving back.
Read the full interview via the link in @uncle_insta 's bio.
