Like the anti-tobacco campaign before it, this will be an important cultural and political turn for years to come. Based on years of undercover research, grassroots investigation and activism as well as performance and cultural interventions, Mel Evans draws together the. Mel Evans is the author of Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts (. As well as making unsanctioned performance works at Tate and writing on oil sponsorship of the arts, she creates. Both Mel Evans and Kevin Smith have been part of art collective Liberate Tate for over five years. Artists and employees are developing new methods of work which publicly confront the oil companies. Mel Evans is an artist and campaigner associated with Liberate Tate and Platform. The conclusion sounds a note of hope: major institutions (such as the Southbank Centre) have already agreed to cut sponsorship, and tribunals are happening which are taking these relationships to task. As well as making unsanctioned performance works at Tate and writing on oil sponsorship of the arts, she. Artwash shows how corporate sponsorship of the arts erases unsightly environmental destruction and obscures the strategies of oil company PR executives who rely on cultural philanthropy. Mel Evans is an artist and campaigner associated with Liberate Tate and Platform. Based on the high profile campaign 'Liberate Tate', Mel Evans targets Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell's collaboration with institutions such as the Tate in an attempt to end the poisonous relationship forever.īased on years of undercover research, grassroots investigation and activism as well as performance and cultural interventions, Mel Evans draws together the story of the campaign and its journey which has gone from strength to strength. * Shortlisted for the Academy of British Cover Design Awards, 2015*Īrtwash is an intervention into the unsavoury role of the Big Oil company's sponsorship of the arts in Britain. *Shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize, 2015*

*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2016*

Artwash by Mel Evans