Just Stop Oil activists found guilty of criminal damage after throwing soup over Van Gogh’s sunflowers | UK News

Two Just Stop Oil activists have been found guilty of criminal damage after throwing soup over Vincent Van Gogh’s painting Sunflowers.

Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, both 22, threw a can of Heinz tomato soup onto the masterpiece on display at London’s National Gallery in London. October 2022.

At the time, the gallery said there was “minor damage” to the frame of the famous artwork, which has an estimated value of £72.5 million.

A video of the demonstration showed the two women wearing Just Stop Oil T-shirts sticking one hand each to the wall below the painting, which is protected by a pane of glass.

Plummer, from Clapham, and Holland, from Newcastle, were found guilty by a jury at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday.

Both denied the accusation.

The maneuver was carried out as the group tried to stop the government from issuing all new oil and gas licenses.

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