Mining sector’s complicity called out in artwashing award

11 companies that hide their dirty business behind a façade of supporting the arts are the nominees for this year’s Artwash Award.

Carbon-polluting companies in the resource sector that mask their activities by supporting the arts are being called out by Perth’s pvi collective through the third annual Artwash Award.

Voting for the Artwash Award is now open, with arts lovers encouraged to vote for the company they think is most guilty of using its social activities to distract from its environmental destruction. Eleven companies are nominated, including Santos, Chevron, Woodside and Rio Tinto.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts