An American oil heir founded the group, which funded a series of recent climate action demonstrations across the UK. Details emerged after a protest at London's National Gallery on October 14 in which two activists from the Just Stop Oil campaign threw tomato soup.vincent van gogh's sunflower (1888).
Eileen Getty is the granddaughter of J. Paul Getty, an oil magnate and founder of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and co-founded the nonprofit Climate Emergency Fund. He joined CEF in 2019 and reportedly donated $1 million of his personal wealth to support environmental activist groups such as Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion.
The group's association with oil heirs has inadvertently heightened criticism over the nature of the protests. Protests sometimes involved vandalism of art and sometimes targeted groups unrelated to financiers involved in the fossil fuel industry. For example, the National Portrait Gallery announced in February that it would stop receiving funding from British Petroleum (BP) when its contract expires in December of this year.
Eileen Getty is funding climate change activist groups such as Just Stop Oil, which stuck her hand on a wall after throwing tomato soup on a Vincent van Gogh painting. sunflower (1888) was held at the National Gallery in London last week. Photo: Quit oil.
Just Stop Oil has held various high-profile demonstrations in public places, particularly museums. Before the tomato soup stunt, activists were glued to the frames of priceless paintings, including Constable's. Hey Wayne (1821) at the National Gallery of Horatio McCulloch my heart's in the highland (1860) at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, JMW Turners. thomson aeolian harp (1809) at Manchester Art Gallery and elsewhere.
Eileen Getty has never personally worked in the oil industry and has poured much of her wealth into charities related to the climate crisis. Getty Oil sold her oil reserves to Texaco in 1984. According to the foundation's website, the Eileen Getty Foundation “supports organizations and individuals around the world who are committed to responding to the climate emergency and treating the planet and its inhabitants with kindness and respect.” ”..
in a statement to Geijutsu Shimbunsha, CEF emphasizes that “its goal is to support movements that demand that governments and institutions step up to protect humanity and all life on Earth.”
CEF further states that “the first step that all governments must take immediately is to stop the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure. We believe that the fastest way to accelerate. Through recruitment, training and development, we make strategic investments in emerging organizations such as: […] Stop Oil keeping our climate change at the forefront of the conversation and putting pressure on governments to urgently address the climate emergency. ”
The CEF announced that October 2022 will be a month of “sustained and disruptive protests” in 11 countries. The organization accepts donations, and he has received large amounts of funding, including pledges of $4 million, from various high-profile donors. The work of American filmmaker Adam McKay, best known for his climate disaster metaphor films. don't look up (2021)—Joined the Fund's Board of Directors in September.
CEF is statement said on social media last week in response to various conspiracy theories that surfaced after it was widely reported that the company's founder is an oil heiress. First of all, Irene has never worked in the fossil fuel industry. That's her family. But she is wealthy. So she asked herself:If you were in her shoes, how would she use her money profitably? Irene's answer was to become a leader in her philanthropy [who] He co-founded CEF and has donated more than $1 million to brave climate change activists. We don't tell them what to do. we support them. ”
- In this week's “The Week in Art” podcast, art newspaper We spoke to Just Stop Oil's Emma Brown about the October 14 demonstration at the National Gallery and the group's Climate Emergency protests.
