Three individuals targeted National Gallery paintings an hour after Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for similar attack in 2022
Climate activists have thrown tomato soup over two Sunflowers paintings by Vincent van Gogh, just an hour after two others were jailed for a similar protest action in 2022.
Three supporters of Just Stop Oil walked into the National Gallery in London, where an exhibition of Van Gogh’s collected works is on display, at 2.30pm on Friday afternoon, and threw Heinz soup over Sunflowers 1889 and Sunflowers 1888.
The latter was the same work targeted by Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland in 2022. That pair are now among 25 supporters of Just Stop Oil in jail for climate protests.
But like, why don’t you go and blow up an oil rig? Or dump paint on an Oil execs car? Or protest directly outside of their house? Sure this sort of thing grabs headlines, but does literally nothing for the cause. If anything it builds momentum AGAINST your cause because you’re making people who don’t have a horse in the race (whether they should or not) think your entire group is dead set on destroying works of art.