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Contributor
Mel Evans

Mel Evans is a writer, activist, artist and part of Liberate Tate. Her book Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts (Pluto Press, 2015) examines the function and impact of oil sponsorship. She has been involved in climate activism since 2005.

Features , Thematic Essays
How Activists Made the Art World Wake Up to the Climate Crisis

From school strikers at the Royal Shakespeare Company to a Trojan horse at the British Museum, protests over oil sponsorship have gripped the arts

BY Mel Evans | 11 FEB 20
Features , Opinion
Why the Art World Must Back Greta Thunberg’s Global Climate Strike

Demonstrations to declare a climate emergency will take place across the world this Friday

BY Mel Evans | 17 SEP 19
Features , Opinion
Why in an Age of Climate Crisis, the Art World Must Shun Oil Sponsorship

As five Turner Prize winners denounce BP sponsorship, the arts community is rising up to address the climate emergency

BY Mel Evans | 08 JUL 19
Opinion
Private Event For an Arms Dealer? A Show of Protest Art? The Design Museum Needs to Pick a Side

The disconnect between public museum programming and private hire couldn’t be starker – it’s time for the arts to rethink who it accepts money from

BY Mel Evans | 01 AUG 18
Opinion
The Point is to Change It

Trump’s trashing of the Paris Climate Accord makes it clear: we can't be satisfied with art about the political, art must change it

BY Mel Evans | 20 JUL 17