Two members of a campaign group at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum have been charged after they poured porridge and jam over a bust of Queen Victoria and spray-painted the word “cunt” on the pedestal.
Sorcha Ni Mhairtin, 30, and Hannah Taylor, 23, from This Is Rigged, carried out the operations around midday on Sunday, before reportedly leaving themselves Glued to the base.
The group said the move was a protest against growing food insecurity.
Ni Mhairtin, an Irish activist and community food worker in Glasgow, said: “We refuse to be dragged back to the Victorian era. Diseases of hunger, including scurvy and rickets, are on the rise.
“Freedom starts with breakfast and if you can’t understand that, we’ll shove it in your face. Food is a human right and we condemn the corrupt systems that make us suffer.”
Other stunts carried out by the group this year include occupying the Royal Dining Room at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
This Rigged said it would continue similar operations until its demands were met. These include supermarkets cutting the price of infant formula to where it will be in March 2021, and the Scottish Government funding and establishing one community food hub for every 500 households in Scotland.
PA Media contacted the museum but it declined to comment.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: “At around 11.55am on Sunday 3 March 2024, police were called to reports of a protest at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow. activities and suspected acts of vandalism.
“Following the incident, two women, aged 23 and 30, were arrested and charged. They have been released with a commitment to appear at Glasgow Magistrates Court at a later date. A report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.”
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