An archive of the content from the previous Art Not Oil website - superceded in October 2013.

Canadian tar sands activists & Climate Campers target BP Portrait Award, 1.9.09

Art Not Oil Thu, 03/09/2009 - 1:00am

Photo by Mike Wells; more photos:
This was a really powerful, spirited, soulful, celebratory and angrday. Last year we wrote to NPG boss Sandy Nairne about BP and tasands, and received no response. This time we came in our hundreds, leby our excellent Canadian friends, leaving the NPG, Canadian Embassand BP itself in no doubt that we will not allow a narcotising drip ogreenwash divert us from our commitment to make sure the tar sandremain undrilled...

Disco-tinged resistance to the BP Portrait Award ceremony, 16-6-09

Art Not Oil Wed, 17/06/2009 - 1:00am


** Green Kite Midnight perform their rewrite of The Jacksons 'Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)', whose chorus becomes'Get safe, get sound, leave the fossil fuels in the ground Let's dance, let's shout, time to shut that Big Oil down!'
** BP & NPG security check the funky sounds to their left **