Three individuals targeted National Gallery paintings an hour after Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for similar attack in 2022

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.

  • Rimu
    3•8 hours ago

    …and yet, here we are talking about climate change. If they’d instead organized a protest of 10,000 people marching for hours it wouldn’t have been international news and we wouldn’t be talking about climate change.

    • @WogiEnglish
      1•4 hours ago

      10 thousand people marching would make world headlines. Though admittedly that’s more difficult than smuggling soup in to an art gallery.

      • Rimu
        0•2 hours ago

        10 thousand people marching would make world headlines.

        No, it wouldn’t. Protest is totally normalized now, it’s just a pressure release valve that helps keep the status quo running.

        Here is a protest that happened today - https://cloudisland.nz/@simplicitarian/113212289035494255

        Apparently it involved between 20,000 to 30,000 people - https://cloudisland.nz/@simplicitarian/113212686270895144

        It will not be mentioned in any big news media outside of New Zealand.

      • @sensiblepuffinEnglish
        0•4 hours ago

        You’re really close to getting it. Just a few more steps.

        • @PugJesusEnglish
          0•2 hours ago

          Confirming that “We don’t want to do things the hard way that works, we want to do easy stuff” is the motivation is a hell of a take to present as a positive.