Launch and public-private view, Thursday July 29th, 7-11pm, with live and prerecorded weatherbeaten and otherwise conscious tunes.
Friday 30th: 4.30-11pm
Saturday 1st: 2.30-6pm
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Background:

Art Not Oil sheds light and shadow on the oil industry

Climate chaos is set to have a catastrophic effect on all of us, while hitting the poorest hardest. Oil is a curse that also fuels war, poverty and environmental destruction. Yet the companies most responsible are profiting handsomely, and they are still welcome it seems in many of our most prestigious public galleries and museums. Why?

Art Not Oil is an exhibition and a campaign, committed to showing powerful political/ecological art, to seeing an end to oil sponsorship of the arts, and to helping build movements for climate justice both here and throughout the world. As well as work that looks at the negative impacts of fossil fuels, we welcome work that looks at positive alternatives and solutions. Keep your art flowing in - turn your visions, nightmares, anger and hope into creative resistance!

Look out also for interactions with the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery.

After the Foundry, it�s on to the Big Green Gathering, Norwich, Edinburgh, Aberdeen (in December), Bristol (in March 2007, both tracking the BP Portrait Award) & beyond...

Shell is the new sponsor of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award. There's a campaign brewing - send us your photos, artworks and ideas for a roving October exhibition & infotour.
See www.shelloiledwildlife.org.uk

Art Not Oil is a project of London Rising Tide: www.londonrisingtide.org.uk
www.nationalpetroleumgallery.org.uk
Tel: 07708 794665
 info@artnotoil.org.uk
 london@risingtide.org.uk

See also:
 http://www.risingtide.org.uk

The Camp for Climate Action, August-September 2006:  http://www.climatecamp.org.uk