The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has sought to return to the artistic tradition by assigning twelve of the UK’s leading artists to create images that celebrate London hosting the 2012 Games, six for the Olympic Games and six for the Paralympic Games.

This weekend the images were unveiled in a specially commissioned collection that will help to promote London 2012.

The images will go on show at Tate Britain in a free exhibition as part of the London 2012 festival in the summer of next year and from today, members of the public will be able to buy copies of the images, as either posters or as limited edition prints.

The selected artists for the Olympic posters are Martin Creed, Anthea Hamilton, Howard Hodgkin, Chris Ofili, Bridget Riley and Rachel Whiteread. For the Paralympic Posters the selected artists are Fiona Banner, Michael Craig-Martin, Tracey Emin, Gary Hume, Sarah Morris Bob and Roberta Smith.

More info: www.london2012.com/festival ^[1]