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Prior to being selected for the Sustainability Art Prize, Memorial was rejected by two high profile venues who saw it as too political or risqué because it named living individuals. While on show at the GSI exhibition it was visited by one of the listed climate change sceptics, Christopher Monckton, who threatened to destroy it and who later wrote: “To put one’s name on a tombstone while one is still alive is to make a death threat, the nastiest and most repellent form of hate speech.”
It has also been called “…a masterpiece of denier commentary” on political blog Daily Kos.
The Holy See Gets It/ Safe Haven/ The Children of Calais/ Eglantyne Jebb Memorial/ Krystyna Skarbek Memorial/ Squeeze/ The View from Here/ The Ectoplasm of Self Delusion/
PRESS:
- BuzzFeed – 8 Pieces Of CLIMAT-ART-E
- Daily Kos, “Monckton outfoxed by a calendar in his fight to censor art”
- Ingenious Pursuits “Tombstone Blues”
- The Daily Mail – James Delingpole
- The Guardian “Why climate action needs the arts”
- The Independent “Climate-change sceptic Viscount Monckton of Brenchley criticises tombstone artwork”
- The Telegraph “More heat than light in climate change debate”’