Australian Artist Caroline Zilinsky Destroys Own Work To Protest Climate Change

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 28: Artist Caroline Zilinsky defaces her own painting, titled 'This is not a planet' at a public viewing at Nanda Hobbs Gallery in Chippendale on November 28, 2022 in Sydney, Australia. Caroline Zilinsky defaced her own work to interrogate the reasoning behind climate group "Just Stop Oil" activists' recent vandalism of works by Vincent Van Gogh in London galleries. Zilinsky's large landscape was inscribed with the words "Ceci nest pas une planete" (This is Not A Planet) after French surrealist painter Rene Magritte's seminal work "The Treachery of Images" (1929). It was then hit with paint in the signature orange used by the climate activist group "Just Stop Oil". Zilinsky is a previous winner of the Portia Geach Memorial Award and an Archibald Prize finalist. (Footage by Don Arnold/Getty Images)