In November 2022, Lee Sharrock and Bakul Patki teamed up with guest curator Neneh Cherry and The Auction Collective on a fundraising Art Auction at Christie’s London to raise money for Arms Around the Child.
Artists from around the globe donated their work to a fundraising art auction in aid of Arms Around the Child, a charity that provides children in Africa and India, who are directly or indirectly affected by HIV/AIDS, orphaned, abandoned or abused, with much‐needed homes, safety, education, healthcare and community. International Christie's Auctioneer Tom Best chaired the live auction at Christie’s on 11th November.
The featured artists who kindly donated their work are; Jacobo Alonzo, Christian Azolan, Lauren Baker, Dan Baldwin, Bartholomew Beal, Mr Brainwash, Paul Broomfield, Justin Bua, Chila Kumari Singh Burman MBE, David Byrne, Rob and Nick Carter, Newton Cavalcanti, Fabrice Cazenave, Wayne Clough. Pete Codling, The Connor Brothers, Cecile Davidovici, Miriam Escofet, Pure Evil, Jermaine Francis, William Fice, Jill Furmanovsky, Toni Gallagher, Jimmy Galvin, Kay Gasei, Gregory de la Haba, Jamie Hewlett, Heckel’s Horse Jnr, Grey Hutton, Chrissie Hynde, Ryo Kato, David Paul Kay, James Lai, Poppy Lennox, Andrew Logan, Emma Loizides, LUAP, Joe Machine, Maximilian Magnus, Alison McKenna, Colin McMaster, Jemima Murphy, George Morton-Clark, MM (Art by Maxim under the moniker MM), Jemima Murphy, Alexander Newley, Aidan O’Neill, Milosz Odobrovic, Zak Ove, Pigcasso, Dan Pearce, Giles Price, Thiago Rocha-Pitta, Jamie Reid, Zandra Rhodes, Sam Rowley, Andrew Salgado, David Shrigley, Paul Stephenson, Ben Summers, John Trashkowsky, Alexandros Tsolakis, Bradley Theodore, Michael Thompson, David Tucker, Lisa Vandy, Johan Walstrom, Kristjana S Williams, Joy Wolfenden-Brown and Osman Yousefzada.
The event raised much-needed funds to help Arms Around The Child complete a school in Senya Beraku, Ghana, and builds on the success of the charity’s previous auctions, which enabled it to build a children’s home in Jaipur, India.
The auction provided a unique opportunity to snap up work from some of the world’s most exciting upcoming talents, as well as art icons, all keen to help the charity continue and grow its essential work building a better and kinder environment for children living, through no fault of their own, in extreme adversity.
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