As part of our on-going campaign to liberate Tate from oil sponsorship we have created this open letter to Nicholas Serota. Whether you are a Tate member or a concerned visitor please put your name to the letter. Your responses will be collated and presented to Tate before Christmas as part of our next installation.
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Liberate Tate 
I am an artist and an art lover, but cannot condone art supporting environmental destruction.
Would you help the Nazis clean up their image? Don’t help BP clean up theirs’!
Tate needs to be concerned with what its sponsors are doing to the very people Tate is trying to
attract for its cultural venues. Greedy, uncaring BP as a Tate sponsor is a very bad move.
wuts the connection betwixt the failed safety valve in the gulf of mexico oil spill made/supplied by cameron , the film director cameron , & our PM ?
Thanks Greenpeace,
It’s time to take back ethics to business (even to art business).
Dear Mr. Serota,
The Tate doesn’t need the likes of BP. It really, really doesn’t.
Stop supporting destruction!
Before ranting at Nicholas Serota, invite him to show that the Tate accomodates artists who attack our oil dependency culture. If he cannot steer that disinterested course, then maybe your letter is merited.
I know how hard it is for the arts to get funding – particularly in the current climate – but BP fo not deserve the opportunity for good publicity they gain for sponsorship for the arts in the face if the damage they fo to our planet.
Tate should get rid of BP’s sponsorship, and the sooner the better!
I believe it is unethical for a company like BP to sponsor Tate, especially when Tate is committed to climate action. BP should wise up and commit to climate action themselves.
Dirty Distractor!
will you PLEASE clean up your act NOW.
Please help to make BP environmentally friendly by refusing to let it sponsor he Tate until it is.
BP is tainted. Dont associate yourself with them, or any other oil company for that matter – you will end up losing
I wish to express my dismay and disappointment that the BP be associated with the cultural sector in any way, in light of the damaging activities it continues to pursue.
Social responsability is everyones responsability…taking money from business that continues to trash the envoroment. Please act for a saner world. Thank you. R
If we don’t respect the path to the future how can we expect to have one!
CLEAN UP AFTER DIRTY OILBUSINES!!
Don’t allow BP to gain any form of credibility by sponsoring the Tate. Thanks.
I assumed the Tate would have principles!!
I can’t sign a letter with such a glaring grammatical error as “who’s” instead of “whose” – please correct it and I will sign.
BP are breaking protocol of Earth Nature and must be deselected as a sponsor. Art reflects life BP reflect pollution and slow death and are not a suitable sponsor for the creative
Stop the BP suposted by your art.
Bring independence to your existence.
Just because I do not appeciate modern art is no reason to want it sponsored by environmentally destructive companies such as BP.
As above, don’t sell out. BP are on a mission to try and present a positive image of themselves. This is a lie.
I appreciate the need for the Tate to attract sponsorship in order to continue its fine work, but sponsorship from BP is ‘dirty money’ in the eyes of many concerned with the damage they do to the environment. Can you please dissociate the Tate from BP
please help the art of nature survive us all, so it can inspire each and everyone of us forever…don’t let BP or their like smudge your canvas Tate….thank you N
i truely wish the world had the time and the granteed safty to care about our planet the way we should.
we are a disease, its just such a shame that some of us would like to co-exists harmlesly with the earth and others, just help create a society that makes it so hard to do that.
Martha
Don’t let the Tate be Tainted by oil!!
i will not be visiting the Tate until it has distanced itself from BP. The Tate has always represented high standards in the past, what’s gone wrong?
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Sponsorship such as this is part of a corporate ‘greenwash’ campaign whereby BP and others attempt to convince the public that they are striving to clean up their act,whereas in fact they do everything they can to obstruct those attempting to introduce genuine strategies to escape oil dependance.
Ironic,really,that The Tate,founded from a fortune based on slavery should find itself mired in this particular argument,it’s not a new strategy for those with a guilty conscience to try to deflect attention from their real business.
Would u take donations off the taliban to help fund
ur gallery
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Let people who are destroying parts of nature, think, there children and the ones coming
after cannot have anything anymore to look at, hear, smell, taste when the peiple responsebel
do not think about waht they leave as an inheritance for the ones after!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Art needs sponsorship and that is difficult to comeby, but the Tate has world standing. If Tate is to support concerns about climate change (as do an increasing number of people) then they need to come clean and declare how much of their good reputation is ‘bought’ by BP to redeem those of BP! There is enough hipocrisy in the world!
Tate please don’t tarnish your reputation and that of the arts, by associating youself with dirty oil tar and other enviromenally damaging enterprises, pursued by BP.
Letting BP sponsor Tate makes also Tate dirty. Mr Serota, can you and Tate afford getting a bad name trough BP?
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Use your influence and position to tell BP to clean up its act
Surely there are others who could give less controversial sponsorship?