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‘Night Bride’ by Paula Rego |
Art auction bidding to preserve work of human rights charity
IN the field of human rights, The Helen Bamber Foundation, founded in 2005, is a relative newcomer.
Yet despite its youth, the Bloomsbury-based arts charity has rallied an impressive list of artists to its cause.
Yasser Alwan, John Berger, Sir Anthony Caro, Rosemary Clunie, Paul Coldwell, Sheila Girling, the estate of Josef Herman, Anish Kapoor, Jacqueline Morreau, Paula Rego, Andrew Stahl and Nick Veasey are just a few of the luminaries who have agreed to donate works to the latest exhibition and auction, The Art of Survival, at the Maddox Arts gallery next week.
According to the charity, funds raised through bidding on May 7 will “help rebuild lives and inspire a new self-esteem in survivors of gross human rights violations”.
The writer and artist John Berger perhaps said it best, though, sending in his work with the words: “I’m sending you a portrait I made one year ago, in the Chiapas south-east Mexico, of the Sub Commandante Marcos of the Zapatistas. I believe he would do the same thing if the drawing was his. Not because he’s concerned with his own image, but because we both know that in the face of pain it is acts that count, acts that recognise, and this is what your Foundation is committed to.”
SIMON WROE
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