Smash the system! Your art on the theme of disruption – in pictures

A creepy world of one-eyed men, a skeleton on a swing and the Buddha as a soldier in the war on terror ... we asked you to share your art about disruption and you riffed on everything from Jackson Pollock to technology taking over the planet. Here are our favourites

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Mon 4 Jan 2016 10.03 EST Last modified on Wed 19 Oct 2022 11.04 EDT

  • CHANGE THE SYSTEM

    Computer graphic (one of many) on the theme of seeking to alert to change the global capitalist system Artwork: plugin46/GuardianWitness

  • The One-Eyed Man Is King

    (red biro on a 139mm x 89mm postcard) When technology is so prolific and beyond the comprehension of many, it can easily intrude on our everyday lives, whether we like it or not. And when this happens, the one-eyed man is truly king Artwork: SkavArt/GuardianWitness

  • Light

    This is an image from my recent street art show 21 Centuries, in Liverpool, comprising 21 large scale wheatpastes on the streets to stand guard over the Homotopia festival. Light and fire can be shared, to illuminate, and to renovate. You can throw shade and you can fan flames, and if you’re not on fire, maybe you’re too wet Artwork: Ed Firth/GuardianWitness

  • Every Mother’s Son

    Mixed media (oil, charcooal, tooled & embossed metal, wood engraving) 37” X 48” X 2” Artwork: Suzanne Tevlin/GuardianWitness

  • Breaking Free

    I believe in disruption in art and follow Jackson Pollock in that. He brought us into a new disruptive form of art- no brushes,no easels-no painting top to bottom ,or left to right,no perspective. I paint with the unstretched canvas the canvas onthe grass in my back yard and throwi and oil drip paint from all four sides of the canvas. Then sun dry it. Abstract art itself is disruptive,if done right.And in new forms and methods. (oil on canvas 48” X 54”) Artwork: Dellflorida/GuardianWitness

  • Mountain Over Water

    As bigoted Anti-Muslim Xenophobia takes hold of a large swaths of the American Christian-Conservative electorate, and Fundamentalist Islamic Terrorism brutalises every nation it touches, this piece imagines the Buddha as a soldier in the so-called “Culture Wars”. His weapons, Radical Mindfulness, and Compassion, are indestructible Artwork: WPaulCarter/GuardianWitness

  • On His Way Up

    A ceramic life-size pair of men’s shoes with dozens of sculpted vaginas on each sole. On His Way Up was a reaction to extreme language used by male politicians to justify legislation that has a negative impact on women’s health. Former Missouri Congressman, Todd Aiken’s statement, while campaigning for the senate: “if there is legitimate rape a women’s body will expel the sperm,” shocked and motivated me to consider current sexual politicsArtwork: Julia C R Gray/GuardianWitness

  • Travel upon roads

    This work is somewhat of reaction to the increasing demands, distractions and disruptions of the modern day-to-day grind in Tokyo and is very much a product of the experience and exploration of trying to find some quiet in such clamour. The slow and gradual retracing of steps and building of layers through line, colour and imagery are very much a personal metaphor for a contemplation of one’s existence (oneself, one’s actions and one’s memories) and result in a work somewhere between abstraction and the representation of such a state Artwork: Joel Plunkett/GuardianWitness

  • Ground Swell

    Digital Collage Artwork: TaymazValley/GuardianWitness

  • “Say Cheese”

    It’s mind numbing what we believe Artwork: mattyball/GuardianWitness
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