Climate campaigner appointed National Portrait Gallery director
The National Portrait Gallery has appointed an environmental campaigner who called for an end to fossil fuel sponsorship in the arts as its new director.
Victoria Siddall is the first woman to lead the London gallery, which has been criticised for indirect links to the oil industry through its benefactors.
Ms Siddall, who raised environmental concerns in her previous gallery roles, helped to launch a climate change manifesto calling for fossil fuel funding to be cut in 2021.
3 comments:
"Indirect links to the oil industry" means that some visitors come to London by car, gallery supplies (and the pictures) get brought by road, and there are a few plastic things around. All of which she will put a stop to, of course.
Obvious, innit? Only watercolours allowed. All those oil paintings gotta go. If you hang around the skip out the back of the Gallery you might pick up a nice daub.
The jury is still out on tempera.
I bet she pulls rank and her bicycle rack is right by the main door.
Sam - and no plastic bits in any Gallery computing equipment, only wood.
Doonhamer - and the lighting is all wind-powered so the gallery is only open on breezy days and visitors must nip round quickly in case the wind drops.
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