Main artists together with Antony Gormley and Brian Eno have donated works to an artwork public sale supporting medical professionals in Gaza.
The Seeds of Solidarity public sale, organised by a coalition known as Well being Staff 4 Palestine, will happen on 1 February on the Savoy resort in London. Proceeds will assist the Gaza Medics Solidarity Fund, which gives stipends to medical doctors working within the enclave, and helps cell clinics and the reconstruction of maternity wards.
The public sale options works by 21 visible artists in whole, additionally together with 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 (previously referred to as Mos Def).
The Turner Prize-winning sculptor Gormley, whose public sale file stands at £5.3m, has given the inkcap-on-paper work Threshold XXIII (2025) to the sale, whereas the musician and visible artist Eno has donated the inkjet-on-velvet Seeing Via to Sky (2025). In 1994 Eno collaborated with David Bowie on an exhibition that grew to become one of many first main fundraisers for Battle Youngster, a charity devoted to youngsters affected by battle.
The founding father of Well being Staff 4 Palestine is Omar Abdel-Mannan, a London-based physician who accompanied the primary Gazan little one to be evacuated to the UK for medical help in July 2025.
“The public sale is a reminder that artwork could be a type of motion,” he tells The Artwork Newspaper. “At a second when healthcare staff in Gaza are working amid extraordinary violence and deprivation, this public sale brings collectively inventive voices and public conscience to supply tangible assist.”
He added: “The generosity of artists donating their work transforms the public sale right into a wider act of solidarity—the place every bit offered represents not solely creativity, however a dedication to defending life, affirming dignity, and insisting that tradition has a job to play in moments of profound injustice.”
The sale is curated by Zayna Al-Saleh, the British-Palestinian curator behind the Voices of Palestine auctions, which has raised over $1.4m during the last two years. Al-Saleh’s earlier auctions have included works by Banksy, Peter Doig and Jeremy Deller.
The fundraiser takes on explicit urgency as greater than 1,700 well being staff have been killed in Gaza because the warfare started on 7 October 2023. Greater than half the territory’s healthcare infrastructure has been destroyed and 15,000 folks require evacuation for medical therapy overseas. Regardless of a US-mediated ceasefire signed on 10 October 2025, 37 worldwide help organisations, together with Oxfam, Save The Kids, and Médecins Sans Frontières, proceed to report being blocked from coming into the territory.
Since Hamas’s assault on 7 October 2023, which killed greater than 1,200 Israelis and through which greater than 250 folks had been taken hostage, greater than 71,000 Palestinians are estimated to have been killed in Gaza in whole, most of the victims girls and youngsters, in line with the native heath authority.
The public sale will happen as a part of a broader gala occasion bringing collectively artists, cultural figures, and medical leaders. Performers embody the Arab Orchestra and the efficiency artist Millie Brown, who is thought for her Woman Gaga collaborations. Audio system embody the medical doctors Ghassan Abu Sitta, recognised globally for battle medication and emergency surgical care in Gaza, and Victoria Rose, who has undertaken a number of humanitarian missions to the area since 2018.
The total public sale catalogue is accessible on-line
