Just Stop Oil eco-idiots funding brazen attacks on artwork by selling their own paintings for over £100k

JUST Stop Oil chiefs are funding attacks on popular artworks — by selling their own paintings for more than £100,000.

They flogged more than 100 works shown at a pop-up gallery featuring art donated by stars including Boy George.

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Phoebe Plummer, pictured left, featured in a Mona Lisa-style print which raised £7,500 for the groupCredit: The Mega Agency

Activist Anna Holland hosted the two-week You May Find Yourself exhibition in a London arthouse.

The 21-yar-old, of Newcastle, was allegedly behind a bid to desecrate Van Gogh’s Sunflowers with tomato soup in October.

She faces a criminal damage trial next year.

Her alleged accomplice, Phoebe Plummer, 21, of Lambeth, South London, featured in a Mona Lisa-style print which raised £7,500 for the group.

Boy George’s No Oil Boy sold for more than £11,000.

The most expensive work fetched £30,000-plus when the auction closed on Friday.

A source said: “If someone tried to throw soup on their paintings they’d probably kick off, especially as they are being sold for thousands.

“Maybe then they’d know how most of the public feel about them.”

A Just Stop Oil spokesperson said: “Art is about asking questions. Questions like why is our government still giving licences and taxpayers’ money to the rich oil companies when new oil and gas will destroy our children’s chance of a future?”

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Just Stop Oil protesters have previously glued themselves to artworkCredit: PA