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.
I wasn’t being vague at all. I gave two examples of people who achieved success when it came to environmental damage by doing more than performative actions because “awareness.”
Throwing soup at paintings and gluing their hands to roads has achieved nothing. It doesn’t make people who are already aware aware. It doesn’t convince people who don’t believe it that they are wrong. It doesn’t keep something that is already in the news due to the endless extreme weather events in the news. It isn’t what drives legislation.
It achieves nothing other than pissing people who are on the soup-throwers’ side off.
I get it that you want easy solutions. There aren’t going to be easy solutions.