Artists target Wimbledon’s ‘strawberries and cream image’ over link to Barclays

have been replaced with artwork taking aim at the tournament’s sponsorship with Barclays over its ties to fossil fuels and companies supplying arms to Israel.

Tournament organisers have come under pressure to drop the bank as a sponsor by climate groups and anti-war activists whoBarclays of using the event to “cover up its role” in funding the climate crisis and to “hide from accountability for its role in enabling Israel’s war crimes”.and Croquet Club have been covered with spoof posters mimicking advertising for Wimbledon and Barclays in a guerrilla action carried out by campaign group Brandalism.

One poster created by Darren Cullen shows a tennis player bleeding out on the court beside a crater with the words “From Gaza to global warming, we’re making a killing.” Another piece by Anarchashows two hands, one from a tennis player and the other from a banker, meeting with the words: “Partners in climate crime and genocide.”

Kit Speedwell, a spokesperson from Brandalism, said: “Wimbledon’s cherished strawberries and cream image has been thoroughly sullied by its decision to partner with Barclays, the most toxic bank in Europe, while the bank continues to pour millions into the arms trade and fossil fuel companies driving climate chaos.

Lindsay Grime, who created a spoof advert for the campaign that shows blood-stained cash flowing out of the pockets of a Wimbledon player, said the sponsorship deal is “serving mission to normalise what they do via a veneer of social acceptability”, adding that “Wimbledon needs to wake up to the fact that Barclays is a totally toxic partner, sullying their tournament by association.

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

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