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.

    • Flying SquidMEnglish
      0•5 hours ago

      We’ve literally been talking about it for decades. An Inconvenient Truth won the Oscar in 2006. What has talking about it accomplished?

      • @[email protected]English
        4•5 hours ago

        That’s not my point. Everytime they deface something, we start talking again about stopping oil production. Sure we talk about it without that push too. But this means we start talking about it more.

        • Flying SquidMEnglish
          4•5 hours ago

          When has talking about ending reliance on fossil fuels ever stopped? I don’t remember it stopping.

          Most people are aware that the Earth is warming and fossil fuels are the cause. There’s nothing you or I can do about that. It’s the corporations that have to be stopped. I can’t stop them. You can’t stop them. Talking about them won’t stop them and neither will throwing cans of soup.

          In fact, I have no idea what will stop them, but talking sure as fuck won’t.

            • @TattorackEnglish
              -2•3 hours ago

              Throwing soup in art galleries is worse than doing nothing.

            • Flying SquidMEnglish
              0•3 hours ago

              There is a massive, massive gulf between “never try anything” and “throw soup at paintings in the hopes of making people aware of a problem they’re already aware of and not just get pissed off at you.”

        • @TattorackEnglish
          -1•3 hours ago

          Bit we’re not talking about stopping oil production. We’re talking about how stupid and pointless defacing art is.