Just Stop Oil protestors arrested after Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers splashed with soup

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Just Stop Oil protestors arrested after Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers splashed with soup

时间：2024-09-30 19:22 来源：未知作者：admin 阅读：次

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Three activists threw soup at two of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers paintings in London, just hours after other protesters were jailed for the same act.

Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were sentenced for throwing tins of tomato soup on the London-based artwork in October 2022.

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The National Gallery said the three people had been arrested and the paintings were unharmed.

Three activists have thrown soup at two of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers paintings in London, just hours after two other members of the Just Stop Oil group were jailed for doing the same thing in 2022.

The activists threw tomato soup at the Sunflowers owned by the National Gallery and another from the series that is on loan from Philadelphia Museum of Art for a temporary exhibition on Friday local time.

Sunflowers had been targeted by the same group two years ago.

The National Gallery said three people had been arrested and the paintings were unharmed.

Protester Ludi Simpson, 71, said the soup was a "splash of protest".

"The treasured pictures remain unharmed," he said in statement.

"What is harming our future is the criminal greed of the fossil fuel economy.

"Our government can choose to end it now."

The stunt came just a few hours after Phoebe Plummer, 23, and Anna Holland, 22, were sentenced for throwing tins of tomato soup on the London-based artwork in October 2022, before gluing themselves to the wall below the painting.

The soup caused up to 10,000 pounds ($AU19,347) worth of damage to the frame in 2022, prosecutors said, though the painting – which was behind a protective screen – was unharmed and went back on display later the same day.

Plummer and Holland pleaded not guilty but were convicted after a trial at London's Southwark Crown Court, where Plummer was sentenced to two years in prison for the criminal damage charge.

Holland was sentenced to 20 months in prison.

Phoebe Plummer, 23, and Anna Holland, 22, glued to the wall after their 2022 protest.

Judge Christopher Hehir told Plummer and Holland: "You two simply had no right to do what you did to 'Sunflowers', and your arrogance in thinking otherwise deserves the strongest condemnation."

Plummer said she took part in the protests knowing she could be arrested and jailed, saying she was being made a political prisoner.

Judge Hehir said that was ludicrous and self-indulgent.

"It is offensive to the many people in other parts of the world who are suffering persecution, imprisonment and sometimes death for their beliefs," he said.

Plummer was also sentenced to an additional three months in prison on Friday, having been separately convicted of the relatively new offence of interfering with the use of key national infrastructure.

Anna Holland was convicted of criminal damage for throwing soup on Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers.

Friday's sentencing comes amid a wider crackdown on protest movements in Britain and across Europe.

Activists from Just Stop Oil have staged a number of eye-catching protests in recent years and five members of the group were jailed in July for at least four years for a conspiracy to block London's M25 motorway, in the longest sentences ever imposed for a non-violent protest in Britain.

The group's mission is to see governments to end the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030.

Reuters/ ABC

By：https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-28/vincent-van-gogh-sunflowers-splashed-with-soup-in-protest/104408488

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