I was pleased so few top East Anglian Artists submitted art works to the Bayer Crop Science 'Material Worlds' Exhibition at The Forum, Norwich, which is on this month. The global firm has a developmental plant in Norwich and many see this "environmental" exhibition as a means by which Bayer Crop Science can "greenwash" their increasingly dirty agro-chemical-medical image clean and eco friendly.
Among other things, Bayer Crop Science is allegedly implicated in the sudden and rapid decline in bee populations in the US and Europe with huge implications for bio-diversity and our long term health. Hence Bayer need a green image - thereby the exhibition. You can find more details about the campaign Against Bayer here.
Actually, I thought the exhibition was very poor. There wasn't any breadth of quality this year - just exceedingly middle-class 'twinky' notions of the environment on display (More Miss Rosalind of Kids' TV fame than Save Our Planet)
Well done all you artists who boycotted this business-politically motivated exhibition!
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