Three protesters have been charged with prison harm and can seem in courtroom after soup was thrown at two Vincent van Gogh work on Friday.
Simply Cease Oil activists poured soup over two work within the Nationwide Gallery, London, simply hours after different members of the group had been jailed for damaging the gold body of the artist’s Sunflowers portray.
Stephen Simpson, 61, of Bradford, West Yorkshire, Phillipa Inexperienced, 24, of Penryn, Cornwall, and Mary Somerville, 77, of Bradford, West Yorkshire, will all seem at Westminster magistrates courtroom on Monday, the Metropolitan police stated.
In a submit on X, previously generally known as Twitter, Simply Cease Oil stated: “BREAKING: 2 VAN GOGH PAINTINGS SOUPED HOURS AFTER PHOEBE AND ANNA SENTENCED.
“3 Simply Cease Oil supporters have thrown soup over 2 of Van Gogh(‘s) work within the ‘Poets and Lovers’ exhibition on the Nationwide Gallery”.
The Nationwide Gallery stated in a press release on Friday that the three protesters had been arrested and the work had been unhurt in the course of the incident.
An announcement stated: “At simply after 2.30pm this afternoon, three folks entered room six of the Nationwide Gallery Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers exhibition.
“They appeared to throw a soup-like substance over two works – Sunflowers (1888, Nationwide Gallery, London) and Sunflowers (1889, Philadelphia Museum of Artwork). Police had been referred to as and three folks have been arrested.
“The work had been faraway from show and examined by a conservator and are unhurt. We’re aiming to reopen the exhibition as quickly as potential.”
The protest got here nearly precisely an hour after Phoebe Plummer, 23, was sentenced to 2 years in jail for inflicting an estimated £10,000 of harm to the body of Sunflowers 1888. Her co-defendant, Anna Holland, 22, acquired 20 months for a similar offence.
