Art Not Oil - previous site "archive" - to 06th Oct 2013

The 2008 online Art Not Oil gallery is up and running (as o26.1.08), so please send us a small-ish photo or two of your piecewhatever shape or size or medium it is. (The address iinfo@artnotoil.org.uk). We'll let you know pretty soon whether it'll bgoing in. 

Please also send any web or other info you'd like to have displayed beneath your piece. ThShell's Wild Lie exhibition will continue online and on tour throug2008, so send work you think might be appropriate for that.We look forward to seeing what you come up with...Thanks and take care, The Art Not Oil crew

12tJanuary 2008 - Around 30 penguins today 'reclaimed the ice' at the NaturaHistory Museum's ice rink in protest at British Airways sponsorship of thmuseum's annual winter festivities.http://www.planestupid.com/?q=content/march-penguins-climate-activists-…
The protestors, from the climate action group Plane Stupiddressed as penguins to highlight the irony of an airline creating aice rink in central London, whilst its business activities are a majocause of global warming, which is melting the polar ice caps ancausing dangerous climate change. The loss of the polar ice wilimperil wildlife such as penguins and polar bears and is believed to ba major 'tipping point' which will speed up climate change.

Art Not OiI  contributor,artist Michael Dickinson faces  up to 2 year in sjail for 'insulting the Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan' with a couple of his collages.

A petition in his support  has been organized by Mungbeing, the onlinmagazine, calling for the abolition of Article 301 in the Turkish Penal Code, which hacriminalized the freedom of expression of  many Turkish writers anartists. http://www.mungbeing.com/petition.htm A court date has been set for 24th March 2008. Please sign the petition.