On June 30, twenty-one-year-old Louis McKechnie and twenty-four-year-old Emily Brocklebank stood with hands attached to either side of the painting’s frame in Courtauld Gallery at Somerset House in London.
In a statement on the group’s website, McKechnie called on leaders within the art world to take action. "Directors of art institutions should be calling on the government to stop all new oil and gas projects immediately," he said, adding, "We are either in resistance or we are complicit."