Protesters have targeted an iconic Australian painting at Western Australia’s art gallery, spraying it with the logo of energy giant Woodside in opposition to the company’s $50 billion mega-project on the Burrup Peninsula.
Photographs have emerged of two people donning “Disrupt Burrup Hub” T-shirts laying an Aboriginal Flag in front of Frederick McCubbin’s 1889 paintingBallardong Noongar man Desmond Blurton and ceramic artist Joana Partyka at the Art Gallery of WA on Thursday.
“Toxic emissions from Woodside’s Burrup Hub are destroying the oldest, largest rock art gallery in the world,” she said. A spokesperson from the Art Gallery of WA confirmed the artwork had been covered in perspex and was not damaged, but declined to make any further comment on the incident. A Woodside spokesperson told WAtoday the company respected people’s rights to protest peacefully and lawfully, but stressed its track record spoke for itself.
“Peer-reviewed research has not identified any impacts on Murujuga rock art from industrial emissions associated with liquefied natural gas production.
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