Activists have previously defaced famous artwork
(Picture: Just Stop Oil / PA)Just Stop Oil are considering slashing famous works of art in an escalation of their efforts to highlight the dangers of climate change.
The demonstrators have previously defaced several iconic artworks, including Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers, currently on show at London’s National Gallery. They have also caused chaos on several London roads and motorways, and sprayed orange paint on various buildings across the capital.
In the run-up to Christmas, however, the controversial activists have said that they are planning to further up the ante of their direct action.
Alex De Koning, a spokesman for Just Stop Oil, told Sky News: “[It is] insane that more people are outraged” by their protests than the floods in Pakistan, which uprooted millions.
The 24-year-old referenced the Suffragettes who “violently slashed paintings in order to get their messages across”. He said: “If things need to escalate, then we’re going to take inspiration from past successful movements and we’re going to do everything we can.”
De Koning admitted that defacing art is “obviously terrible” but that “if that’s unfortunately what it needs to come to, then that’s unfortunately what it needs to come to.”
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