‘Stratford - Twinned With Bhopal’.
Yes, it’s, er ‘official’. The Olympic Park in Stratford, East London, has now been twinned with Bhopal.
Painting by activist artist Ziggy Norton
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‘Stratford - Twinned With Bhopal’.
Yes, it’s, er ‘official’. The Olympic Park in Stratford, East London, has now been twinned with Bhopal.
Painting by activist artist Ziggy Norton
Artist joins the protest against Dow Chemical sponsorship of the London Olympics with a billboard artwork in Bhopal.
From the ‘City Journal’, Kerala:
Sayed Irshad Ali, from Udaipur district in Rajasthan, is in Bhopal these days to showcase his contemporary art work, including hoardings and posters, in various public places.
He compares two major industrial disasters - the 1984 Bhopal tragedy and 2010’s oil leak from British Petroleum’s underwater drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico off the US coast.
“I am raising two main points through my artwork. Firstly, I am comparing these two manmade tragedies. In the first case, human beings died, and in the other, fish. The families of 500,000 Bhopal gas victims, even after 27 years, are still waiting for justice, whereas the US made BP pay a compensation of $20bn for dead fish and environmental damage in the Gulf of Mexico,” Ali said
A great photoshop mock-up of how the London Olympic Stadium might look if LOCOG go ahead with the crazy idea of allowing Dow Chemical to supply the nasty plastic ‘wrap’.
Our recyled art at night. Glastonbury 2011. For more recycled art images please also have a look at our
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The Bhopal Medical Appeal made a statement about cleaning up at Glastonbury this year.
Michael Eavis has recently become a patron of the BMA and, thanks to this fantastic news, we were able to substantially raise our game at Glastonbury this year.
We had 80 litter pickers this year and we arranged for them to bring certain of the litter back to our marquee, just beside the Leftfield stage, for recycling into sculptures.
The scupltures included various over-sized figures representing Bhopali people collecting water plus one giant sized skull- all built to light up at night.
As an aside, we were also cleaning the hands of passers by with a special organic, chemical and alcohol-free hand sanitizer of our own making.
We were cleaning up Glastonbury. Nobody is cleaning up Bhopal.
Late night post today, I spent the day at my alma mater Illinois State University, I was invited back to talk with current students about my work in the theatre as well as my mission of giving. It was the first time I ever a guest speaker, but I had a wonderful time talking about my…

Revers graffiti piece created by Moose Curtis and dedicated to the survivors of the Bhopal Disaster
In Moose’s own words:
“I was being filmed by CNN when I made the piece, ( its just rainwater fired against wooden stencils on some really toxic looking sea wall lichen) it represented the horrid ring of poison created by the original pollution and the take over of Union Carbide by the drug company (Dow Chemical) who are the poison on the other half of the eternity ring. I talked about what little I know about the disaster, while they filmed, but they edited the whole thing out just having me say at the end of the film that ’ I really liked it and it looked good”.
Jake and Dinos Chapman.
Bhopal water pot kindly donated to our ‘Art for Bhopal’ auction. This piece was sold at our special auction event, with Phillips de Pury, on 11th October.
Barry Reigate- ‘Untitled’
2010
acrylic, pencil, spray paint, marker pen, gloss paint and varnish.
A unique piece created especially for our Water Pots auction. To be sold with 100% of proceeds going to Bhopal Medical Appeal
This piece will be auctioned, by Phillips de Pury in London, on 11th October. To request further information or to make a bid please visit the Phillips de Pury website, or contact:
colintoogood@bhopal.org


Marc Quinn - ‘Untitled’
2010
Another great piece donated for our auction at Phillips de Pury on 11th October. For further information or to make a pre-auction bid, please contact: colintoogood@bhopal.org
Alternatively visit the Phillips de Pury website
Another great piece of art donated for our action on the 11th October. The auction will take place at Phillips de Pury, in London, but you will be given the chance to bid online. More details to follow.
Full list of artists taking part in this project includes: Anish Kapoor; Antony Gormley; Barry Reigate; Conrad Shawcross; Gary Hume; Gavin Turk ; Harland Miller; Jason Brooks; Keith Coventry; Langlands and Bell; Marc Quinn; Mat Collishaw; Mona Hatoum; Patrick Hughes; Paul Fryer; Polly Morgan; Pure Evil; Simon Periton; Sir Peter Blake; Stephen Webster; Subodh Gupta; The Chapman Brothers; Tim Noble and Sue Webster; Tracey Emin; Yinka Shonibare MBE
Plus Ged Wells as special online guest
Pot customised by Pure Evil for our show using neon tubes. Super cool!
The customised water pots posted here will be auctioned on the 11th October by Phillips de Pury. The full list of contributing artists is as follows:
Anish Kapoor; Antony Gormley; Barry Reigate; Conrad Shawcross; Gary Hume; Gavin Turk ; Harland Miller; Jason Brooks; Keith Coventry; Langlands and Bell; Marc Quinn; Mat Collishaw; Mona Hatoum; Patrick Hughes; Paul Fryer; Polly Morgan; Pure Evil; Simon Periton; Sir Peter Blake; Stephen Webster; Subodh Gupta; The Chapman Brothers; Tim Noble and Sue Webster; Tracey Emin; Yinka Shonibare MBE. Plus, special online guest artist Ged Wells
Please contact Colin Toogood if yo
u would like to know more about these artworks or if you would like to make a bid.
An incredible piece of art donated to our show by Subodh Gupta. This piece will be auctioned at our special event at the Phillips de Pury showroom on the 11th October.
If you would like to know more about this event, or would like to make a bid for this amazing piece, then please contact Colin Toogood:
colintoogood@bhopal.org
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Stik talks about corporate accountability at the Pure Evil ‘Skullduggerous’ show. Are you listening Mr. Andrew Liveris, CEO of Dow?
SWOON. Piece comprised of three images. This is number one of three.
On sale at Pure Evil Gallery, 100% of sale price goes to The Bhopal Medical Appeal.
http://pureevilgallery.arloartists.com/portfolios/31041-bhopal-medical-appeal
SWOON visited India and, as part of her trip, made a special journey to Bhopal in the hope of understanding a little more about what had happened there, why it has never been put right and why there are still so many people suffering.
Purely by coincidence she found herself at the Sambhavna clinic, our clinic, and was inspired enough, by the activities of the clinic, to use photos of it as the main part of her contribution to the ‘Skullduggerous’ show.
We’re totally stoked that SWOON should have found herself at the clinic and decide to use it in her work!!