Stonehenge is the most recent cultural landmark to be focused by Simply Cease Oil environmental activists, who as we speak sprayed the traditional web site in Wiltshire, UK, with orange powder paint.
A spokesperson for English Heritage, which oversees the monument, tells The Artwork Newspaper: “Orange powdered paint has been thrown at a lot of the stones at Stonehenge. Clearly, that is extraordinarily upsetting and our curators are investigating the extent of the harm. Stonehenge stays open to the general public.”
In an announcement, Wiltshire police mentioned: “We’ve got arrested two folks following an incident at Stonehenge this afternoon. At round midday, we responded to a report that orange paint had been sprayed on among the stones by two suspects. Officers attended the scene and arrested two folks on suspicion of damaging the traditional monument. Our inquiries are ongoing.” In line with the Guardian, members of the general public tried to cease the incident.
Simply Cease Oil named each activists in an announcement (Niamh Lynch, 21, and Rajan Naidu, 73). Naidu says: “The orange cornflour we used to create an eye catching spectacle will quickly wash away with the rain, however the pressing want for efficient authorities motion to mitigate the catastrophic penalties of the local weather and ecological disaster is not going to.”
Simply Cease Oil provides that it’s “demanding that the incoming UK authorities decide to working with different governments to agree an equitable plan to finish the extraction and burning of oil, gasoline and coal by 2030”. The UK prime minister Rishi Sunak condemned the incident nonetheless, telling The Guardian: “It is a disgraceful act of vandalism to one of many UK’s and the world’s oldest and most essential monuments.”
Beforehand, Simply Cease Oil protests have focused the Magna Carta on the British Library in London and artistic endeavors together with Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers(1888) on the capital’s Nationwide Gallery.
