Jan. 19 () –
An activist has been arrested this Thursday for spray painting a picture by the well-known Australian painter Frederick McCubbin during a protest against a gas project valued at 16.5 billion dollars (about 15.2 billion euros) by the company Woodside on the Murujuga peninsula. .
The 37-year-old woman is in police custody after drawing the company’s logo on the canvas, which is at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, while wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan ‘Stop Murujuga Business’. ‘.
The painting is one of the most important paintings in the gallery, which has indicated in a statement that, fortunately, the canvas is protected by an acrylic coating that would have prevented irreparable damage.
A second activist has glued his hands to one of the walls of the gallery, according to the text, as collected by the ABC television network. “The man was withdrawn and the matter has been left in the hands of the Police,” he pointed out.
