I've cut and pasted below all the information from the press release. I will certainly be going along, looking forward to it. You can also still buy some of last years contributions from the website. Great art for a great cause!
Grayson Perry and Specials
bassist Horace Panter amongst 250 contributors of artworks on envelopes for The
National Brain Appeal charity’s ‘A Letter in Mind’ fundraising exhibition at
gallery@oxo 8-18 October 2015
Following the huge success of The National Brain Appeal’s exhibition
of artworks, created on envelopes and sold anonymously for £80, ‘A Letter in
Mind - The Art of a Journey’ - returns to gallery@oxo for a second time (8-18
October 2015). Grayson Perry has again created an exclusive artwork for the
event. He was also amongst last year’s contributors whose names are only
revealed at the end of the exhibition, and helped to raise £22,000 for the
charity which raise vital funds for The National Hospital for Neurology and
Neurosurgery, the UK’s leading centre of excellence for treating diseases of
the brain, spine and nervous system.
The exhibition will also include pieces by artists Billy Childish,
Catherine Goodman and Harry Pye, author/illustrators Polly Dunbar, Chris
Haughton and Tim Hopgood, actors Joanna David, Phyllida Law and Kevin Eldon as
well as Horace Panter, bassist of The Specials and professional artist. These
will be exhibited alongside pieces from the creative community, local and
international − from art studios, arts festivals, drawing clubs and social
media-based arts organisations.
‘A Letter in Mind - The Art of a Journey’ invites artists to
visually respond to a journey that they have experienced: whether emotional or
psychological, real or imagined and to empathise with patients at The National
Hospital who embark on their own journeys to recovery or in learning how to
live with the effects of their illness or injury. The concept of a journey is
specifically relevant to artists as it mirrors the production and culmination
of an artwork.
All the artworks use a simple envelope as a starting point. All the
envelope artworks will be identically priced at £80 and sold anonymously at the
exhibition in aid of The National Brain Appeal. The artist’s name and biography
be revealed at the end of the exhibition.
Theresa Dauncey, Chief Executive of The National Brain Appeal, said:
“It’s fascinating to see the variety of artworks that people have created in
response to the title ‘A Letter in Mind - The Art of a Journey’. There are some
really beautiful, intricate and thought provoking pieces. The concept has
clearly got people thinking about the relationship between the brain and the
mind. The exhibition is free and runs for ten days so we’d love as many people
as possible to visit. You could become the proud owner of an original artwork,
perhaps by Grayson Perry, for just £80!”
Over 250 submissions have come from established and emerging names
in the worlds of art and design, architecture, illustration, graphic design,
film and the dramatic arts; the envelopes have been built in, drawn on,
painted, written on, wired, collaged, sewn and had artworks sealed inside them.
Examples include; a quilted envelope that reveals a fan letter to Grayson
Perry hidden inside; a delicately hand-coloured drawing from a 1967 travel
sketchbook created by a patient and retired museum designer who, due to
her condition is unable to continue drawing and a beautifully sewn fishing fly
created by the daughter of a doctor who tragically died from a brain haemorrhage when
the artist was only six months old.
The exhibition makes visible the breadth of ways that brain
conditions affect us all and how we can create extraordinary poignant
artworks in response, in memoriam and in celebration of the lives affected.
‘A Letter in Mind - The Art of a Journey’ will be at gallery@oxo,
Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, London SE1 9PH from Thursday 8 October to
Sunday 18 October, open daily from 11am-6pm. Admission free. More information: http://www.nationalbrainappeal.org/
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