Now he has penned this work on global sponsorship of the arts by oil companies in an attempt to unmask their motives as less pure than the oil they mine.Įvans claims that the oil sponsorship campaign is akin to those conducted by tobacco and arms companies and which were eventually outlawed. Mel Evans was one of the eight individuals who protested outside of the Tate gallery back in June 2010 by pouring molasses all over the entrance to a party hosted by BP at the time. Evans claims that the companies are only doing so to try and achieve positive publicity in order to facilitate the extraction of oil in areas opposed to it. However, a book named Artwash by Mel Evans has cast aspersions on the motives of oil companies who sponsor the arts.
They are by no means the only company to sponsor the arts, with Shell and other tycoons of the industry giving money to various organisations, museums and galleries around the world. Over the last 17 years, oil giants BP have donated around £3.8 million to the Tate modern gallery, which works out to roughly £224,000 on an annual basis.
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