Arms Around the Child Fundraising Art Auction at Christie’s London
with Guest Curator Neneh Cherry.
Leading contemporary artists and musicians including Christian Azolan, Dan Baldwin, Lauren Baker, Chila Kumari Singh Burman MBE, David Byrne, Rob and Nick Carter, Wayne Clough, Pure Evil, Jill Furmanovsky, Toni Gallagher, Kay Gasei, Jamie Hewlett, Chrissy Hynde, LUAP, Maxim, Poppy Lennox, Alexander Newley, Dan Pearce, Pigcasso, Jamie Reid, Kristjana S Williams, Zandra Rhodes, David Shrigley, Bradley Theodore, Alexandros Tsokalis and Osman Yousefzada donate work to Arms Around the Child Art Auction – helping children living in extreme adversity.
LONDON, 26th October 2022 – Contemporary artists from around the world – and Pigcasso, a pig with an unusual talent for art – have donated artwork 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.
All the artwork is available for viewing and bidding online at https://theauctioncollective.com/auctions/art-auction–arms-around-the-child-timed/
prior to the live auction at Christie’s, King Street on 11th November 2022.
A stunning array of emerging and established contemporary artists have generously donated to the auction; 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 Frances, 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 Tsokalis, Bradley Theodore, Michael Thompson, David Tucker, Lisa Vandy, Johan Walstrom, Kristjana S Williams, Joy Wolfenden-Brown and Osman Yousefzada.
The pandemic-postponed event will now return bigger and better, hosted on Friday November 11th by Christie’s at their London King Street location – former Christie’s auctioneer and Contemporary Art Specialist Tom Best and online by The Auction Collective, from October 12th to November 11th 2022.
Co-curated by Bakul Patki, Lee Sharrock and Peter Wells-Thorpe, with special guest curator Neneh Cherry, the event will raise 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.
David Paul Kay will be coming to London from New York for an artist residency at The Mandrake Hotel. He will paint a bespoke canvas for the Arms Around the Child charity auction. David Paul Kay is a New York City-based American contemporary artist.
Originally from Eastern Europe (former Soviet Republic of Georgia), David migrated to the United States in 2008. As a self-taught artist, Kay has always experimented with various techniques, though his career evolved soon after moving to New York City in early 2009 and developing his signature monochromatic style.
Guest curator Neneh Cherry says:
“I grew up surrounded by creativity…my father was a Jazz musician and my mother a multidisciplinary artist. Naturally, art and design have always played a huge part in my own creative practice as a musician and performer. I was therefore thrilled to be invited to guest curate the auction for Arms Around The Child – a charity whose work I’ve long admired – and to be able to bring together some of my favourite artists and collaborators to help this deserving cause.”
