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
      -1•3 months ago

      I’m sure you’ve never suggested people doing something might be better off spending their time doing something else, but most people have.

      • @[email protected]English
        0•3 months ago

        I mean we all make mistakes. The important thing is we take this moment to learn something new.

        • Flying SquidMEnglish
          1•3 months ago

          For example, maybe you would be better off not being unnecessarily rude to a moderator.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•3 months ago

            Yeah, y’all have a tough enough job I suppose. Sorry if the banter went too far.