"Leading artists including Antony Gormley and Brian Eno have donated works to an art auction supporting medical professionals in Gaza. The Seeds of Solidarity auction, organised by a coalition called Health Workers 4 Palestine, will take place on 1 February at the Savoy hotel in London. Proceeds will support the Gaza Medics Solidarity Fund, which provides stipends to doctors working in the enclave, and supports mobile clinics and the reconstruction of maternity wards."
"The auction features works by 21 visual artists in total, also including Mona Hatoum, Lisa Brice, Caroline Walker, Alison Wilding, Sam Durant, Rana Begum and Hassan Hajjaj, who contributed a portrait of hip-hop artist Yassin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def). The Turner Prize-winning sculptor Gormley, whose auction record stands at £5.3m, has given the inkcap-on-paper work Threshold XXIII (2025) to the sale, while the musician and visual artist Eno has donated the inkjet-on-velvet Seeing Through to Sky (2025)."
The Seeds of Solidarity auction, organised by Health Workers 4 Palestine, will take place on 1 February at the Savoy hotel in London. Proceeds will support the Gaza Medics Solidarity Fund, which provides stipends to doctors working in the enclave and supports mobile clinics and the reconstruction of maternity wards. Twenty-one visual artists donated works to the sale, including Antony Gormley, Brian Eno, Mona Hatoum, Lisa Brice, Caroline Walker, Alison Wilding, Sam Durant, Rana Begum and Hassan Hajjaj. Antony Gormley donated Threshold XXIII (2025) and Brian Eno donated Seeing Through to Sky (2025). Omar Abdel-Mannan, a London-based doctor who accompanied the first Gazan child evacuated to the UK in July 2025, founded Health Workers 4 Palestine. The auction frames art as a form of action and an act of solidarity to protect life and affirm dignity amid extraordinary violence and deprivation in Gaza.
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