A previous Just Stop Oil stunt at Stonehenge (Just Stop Oil)
The group said it is to end stunts including throwing soup on works of art, as it schedules a final day of protest next month
Just Stop Oil has said it will change its approach to demonstrations, particularly those involving art and galleries and museums, and heritage sites such as Stonehenge.
The group said it is “hanging up the hi vis”, and will end the type of stunts which have previously included “soup on Van Goghs, cornstarch on Stonehenge and slow marching in the streets.”
The group’s supporters had previously targeted a statue of the Greek goddess Demeter at the British Museum, and sprayed part of Stonehenge and a Titanosaur skeleton exhibit at the Natural History Museum with orange cornstarch.
Its supporters have also thrown soup over Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ and struck the glass on The Toilet of Venus by Velázquez” in two separate incidents at The National Gallery.
Last year the National Museum Directors’ Council said political demonstrations need to be taken away from museums and galleries.
The group claimed the action it has taken made it “one of the most successful civil resistance campaigns in recent history”.
It said it is now “creating a new strategy”, adding “nothing short of a revolution is going to protect us from the coming storms”.
A final Just Stop Oil action ‘one day of action’ is expected in Parliament Square on April 26th.
