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Just Stop Oil climate activists glue themselves to a Van Gogh painting at the Couldthard Gallery on the 30th of June 2022, London, Unted Kingdom. The two activists, Louis McKechnie, 21, from Weymouth in Dorset and Emily Brocklebank, 24 a psychology student from Leeds excused themselves to the gallery visitors and briefly explained their action before the gallery was cleared by security and police arrived. Provence, the landscape where the painting 'Peach Trees Blossom' is painted by Vincent van Gogh, is under threat of draught after an unpresedented dry and hot spring, according to Just Stop Oil. The Just Stop Oil activists call for the government to end new oil and gas and for art institutions to join them in civil resistance.
