Phil Green, Ludi Simpson, and Mary Patricia Somerville, Just Stop Oil activist throw soup at Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
A few hours after two climate activists were found guilty of a court of dumping tomato soup over a Van Gogh painting in 2022, three further persons staged a protest of a similar nature at London’s National Gallery.
Who are Phil Green, Ludi Simpson, and Mary Patricia Somerville as Just Stop Oil activist throw soup at Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting
Just hours after two group members were convicted for a similar conduct, three Just Stop Oil (JSO) supporters on Friday, September 27, splashed liquid over two paintings by Vincent van Gogh at London’s National Gallery.
In a post on X, Just Stop Oil posted a video of the event and said: “BREAKING: 2 VAN GOGH PAINTINGS SOUPED HOURS AFTER PHOEBE AND ANNA SENTENCED.”
🚨 SOUP ATTACK REDUX AT LONDON NATIONAL GALLERY!
Hours after two “Just Stop Oil” activists were sentenced to 20 months in prison for throwing soup on a Van Gogh painting, three other activists repeated the stunt.
Both paintings attacked were versions of Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’… pic.twitter.com/RviQQmJIth
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The action was captured on camera, with two activists hurling soup over the popular painting and a third activist approaching to join them while they wear shirts that read,
According to the national gallery, three people had been taken into custody after “a soup-like substance” was spilled over two pieces of art, Sunflowers (1888) and Sunflowers (1889). In addition to stating that three fans had thrown soup over two of the Van Gogh paintings in the gallery’s “Poets and Lovers” exhibition, JSO uploaded video to its X account.
Breaking: The Just Stop Oil protesters who threw soup on a Van Gogh painting have been jailed.
Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland have been found guilty of criminal damage. Phoebe Plummer got 2 years!
Good. Our leftist two-tier justice system finally got something right. pic.twitter.com/uYPQZXJbY3
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The act was deemed a “sign of defiance” by the organization, following the jailing of two activists earlier on Friday for hurling soup at the 1888 Sunflowers painting in October 2022. It identified the participants in the most recent demonstration as 24-year-old Phil Green, 71-year-old retired professor Ludi Simpson, and 77-year-old grandma Mary Patricia Somerville.
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 and threw Heinz soup over Sunflowers 1889 and Sunflowers 1888.
“Future generations will regard these prisoners of conscience to be on the right side of history,” Phil Green told visitors to the gallery.
Ludi Simpson said: “We will be held accountable for our actions today, and we will face the full force of the law. When will the fossil fuel executives and the politicians they’ve bought be held accountable for the criminal damage that they are imposing on every living thing?”
The gallery stated that the incident happened at 2:30 pm and that after the paintings were taken down from display and looked over by a conservator, they were discovered to be undamaged. “We are aiming to reopen the exhibition as soon as possible,” the gallery stated.
“We will be held accountable for our actions today, and we will face the full force of the law,” said Simpson. “When will the fossil fuel executives and the politicians they’ve bought be held accountable for the criminal damage that they are imposing on every living thing?”
Two Just Stop Oil activists, Phoebe Plummer (23) and Anna Holland (22), have been sentenced to two years and 20 months in prison, for throwing soup over the glass-protected Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers.”
Despite causing no physical damage to the artwork, both received significant… pic.twitter.com/3VVx8SmMbg
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