If you’ve always wanted a technicolour close-up of Kate Moss’s fizzog, a black and white portrait of Keira Knightley’s incredibly large feet or a pic of a children’s-nightmare-inducing masked Lily Cole horror doll on your wall, well are you in for a treat.
Those are just a few of the strangely desirable lots up for grabs at the Annual McMillan De’Longhi Art Auction, an event to whose artistic wheel a number of celeb heavyweights have kindly put their sizeable shoulders to. Among those helping to raise money for the cancer charity this year are aforementioned mask-maker Gillian Wearing, Anthony Gormley, Rankin, and Gavin Turk to name but four of a long list – 60 names long to be precise. A certain drummer from a well-known 1960s Liverpudlian musical quartet has even taken time out from being eccentric on Twitter to contribute.
The gavel will be coming down on September 25 at the Royal College of Art in Kensington, London, so if you have a few (thousand) quid down the back of the sofa, as some people do, fetch it out and bag yourself an artistic treat for a good cause. We practically demand it of you.
Gillian Wearing – Lily Cole
James Jessop – Samo
Keira Contemplating by Rankin
Antony Gormley – Feel II
James Joyce – Wild
You are my Universe by Rob Ryan
Yellow Cap by Mark Hayward
Shiant Garbh Eilean by Norman Ackroyd
