'Oil & Water Do Not Mix'
Poster
2010 (made)
2010 (made)
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poster, screen printed with oil from the Gulf of Mexico on white paper, top half 'Oil & Water' in brown oil, bottom half 'Do Not Mix' in white, surrounded by brown oil.
Object details
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| Title | 'Oil & Water Do Not Mix' (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Screen printed with oil |
| Brief description | 'Oil & Water Do Not Mix' poster, screen printed with oil from the Gulf of Mexico, designed by Anthony Burrill, UK, 2010 |
| Physical description | poster, screen printed with oil from the Gulf of Mexico on white paper, top half 'Oil & Water' in brown oil, bottom half 'Do Not Mix' in white, surrounded by brown oil. |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
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| Credit line | Given by the artist |
| Object history | Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, Anthony Burrill was approached by Tom Galle and Cecilia Azcarate, the creative team at the communications agency Happiness Brussels. Galle and Azcarate asked Burrill to design a poster using oil from the spill. Azcarate and Galle travelled to Louisiana to take samples of the oil but found the beach sealed off by BP security. However, they managed to collect some buckets with sand saturated by crude oil which was subsequently brought to Purple Monkey Design, a commercial print shop in New Orleans, to be separated out into a useable printing material. Burrill's poster design features a simple slogan: OIL & WATER DO NOT MIX. Azcarate, Galle, and Burrill launched a website through which the posters were sold, with all proceeds going toward the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL). |
| Production | Edition of 200 |
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| Accession number | E.1086-2011 |
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| Record created | March 2, 2012 |
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