Career
In 2014 his anti-army recruitment comic Join the Army was added to the Victoria and Albert Museum permanent collection In 2014 Cullen opened a shop installation called "Pocket Money Loans" in Finsbury Park A payday loan shop for kids, which appeared to give children an advance on their pocket money at 5000% interest. In 2015 he took the work to Banksy"s Dismaland, opening the shop in a portacabin next to the children"s play area. In 2015, alongside Veterans for Peace United Kingdom he released a series of films called Action Manitoba: Battlefield Casualties.
Directed by Price James and written by Cullen, the films parody 90s Action Manitoba toy adverts to draw attention to the possible outcomes of military service through three short "adverts" for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Action Manitoba, Paralysed Action Manitoba and Dead Action Manitoba
They were part of a campaign by Veterans for Peace United Kingdom to raise the British military age of recruitment from 16 to 18, in line with other European and Nato countries.
