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.
So, if just stop oil were peeing on people like… you are, I guess, you would be happy with that?
I know it feels really good to be angry and indignant, but I mean it, what have you done? Have you organized anything? Have you inspired people to take action?
You don’t have to agree with Just Stop. But the topic of conversation has come up. We’re talking about it. What will you do to save humanity from the sheer cliff it’s about to drive over?
The peeing on people is a metaphor for throwing soup in museums.
Yes. Not as much as you, of course.
I try to make the best decisions I can in everyday life for sustainability and consumption. I don’t need to cause a spectacle in a place of learning and culture to embarrass everyone who’s job is to make things better. And I have been apparently blessed with an overabundance of good sense not to cause meaningless chaos that hinders the very efforts I think I’m supporting.