Early in the Wapping dispute a letter to Murdoch from his lawyers was leaked, revealing that they had advised him to induce a strike in his print workforce so that he could fire all 5000+ of them without having to pay redundancy payments. The leak was crucial in gaining support for the print unions.
The following is a flong of this letter made by the artist. The flong was invented in the 19th century, used in hot metal typesetting it is a starch bound matrix of thick paper that takes an imprint of type, allowing printers to then roll the flong into a semi cylinder and cast the type as one curved piece called a stereotype, a roller can then be created from this for fast printing. The artist would like to thank Richard Lawrence for allowing access to his archives so that the flong recipe could be recreated.
Paper, starch, 220*180mm
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