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Greenpeace Stages Anish Kapoor Art Protest on UK Gas Platform
Greenpeace activists installed a 12m by 8m artwork titled 'Butchered' on an active Shell gas platform and sprayed 1,000 litres of blood-red liquid to protest fossil fuel impacts.
- On 14 August 2025, seven Greenpeace climbers conducted a protest by displaying a 12-meter by 8-meter banner titled 'Butchered' on Shell’s Skiff offshore gas rig located in the North Sea, approximately 45 nautical miles from the coast of Norfolk.
- The protest was motivated by recent extreme heatwaves, wildfires, and floods linked to climate change driven by fossil fuel extraction and emissions.
- Activists released 1,000 litres of a crimson liquid, created using seawater, beetroot extract, and a safe, food-grade dye, onto the artwork to represent the harm caused by the fossil fuel sector.
- Philip Evans of Greenpeace called the artwork a 'visual gut-punch' that exposes the suffering caused by oil and gas operations, while Shell criticized the protest as 'extremely dangerous' and illegal trespassing.
- The protest highlights calls for governments to hold oil giants like Shell accountable and levy taxes on fossil fuel profits to support climate-affected communities.
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Environmental NGO activists climbed a Shell company offshore platform on Wednesday, August 13, before pouring false blood on a work by British plasticist Anish Kapoor.
Greenpeace Stages Anish Kapoor Art Protest On UK Gas Platform
Greenpeace activists have unfurled a massive anti-fossil fuel canvas by renowned sculptor Anish Kapoor on a North Sea platform in a rare protest on an active offshore gas rig, the group said Thursday.
Greenpeace installs Anish Kapoor’s ‘Butchered’ protest art at North Sea gas rig
London, Aug 14 (PTI) Greenpeace activists have installed Anish Kapoor’s protest art named ‘Butchered’ at a platform of a gas rig in the North Sea, which the award-winning British Indian artist said attempts to "bring home the horrors” of fossil fuels to the planet. The global environmental campaign group said its climbers had successfully installed the major new work onto a Shell platform in the North Sea, marking the world’s first artwork at an…
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