Artists have long immortalised those who make history. Today hundreds are making quiet history as leaders of the world’s worst polluters.
Let’s commission artists to paint or sculpt them in a public global hall of shame.
Fossil fuel company CEOs, funders of denial, mercenary politicians, all profiting from planetary breakdown. Art should help bring them to our collective attention. Deny them the comfort of anonymity. Raise the social cost of their actions. Thereby discouraging others.
Unignorable portraits by high-profile artists, that also probe their motives and doubts, cast a light into their souls, and ultimately invite redemption.
