Sir Anish Kapoor Designs Offshore Sector's First Public Art Installation

Sir Anish Kapoor Designs Offshore Sector's First Public Art Installation

Working with Greenpeace UK, sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor CBE has completed an unauthorized and potentially illegal modern art installation at a platform...

Greenpeace Activists Scale Gas Rig to Hang Anish Kapoor Protest Work

A small band of demonstrators from the environmental activist group Greenpeace climbed an active Shell gas extraction platform on August 13 to unfurl a massive Anish Kapoor work in protest of the catastrophic effects of oil and gas on the climate. Titled Butchered, the work consists of a roughly 1,000-square-foot white canvas soaked in blood-red […]

Greenpeace & Anish Kapoor stage protest art at Shell’s North Sea platform

Greenpeace activists placed a new artwork by artist Anish Kapoor on an operational Shell platform in the North Sea.

Greenpeace Unfurls Anish Kapoor’s Bloody ‘Butchered’ Work Across North Sea Gas Rig

Last Wednesday, Greenpeace activists scaled a gas rig in the North Sea, unfurled a 315-square-foot canvas across its side, and sprayed crimson paint over it. The act was a piece of protest art designed by Anish Kapoor.Titled Butchered, it is believed to be the first example of fine art exhibited from a working gas rig and is a commentary on “the butchering of our environment,” the British artist told the Guardian.The rig is operated by oil and g…