The SCOOP Foundation’s Art Auction & Exhibition 2010. The Ormond Bar, Ormond Quay, Dublin. Launched on the 14th of September. Actual auction is on the Sunday the 19th of September.
On Tuesday the 14th of September 2010, we launched the 2nd annual Art Auction & Exhibition (with a wine reception) in the hope of raising €35,000 in order to build a brand new, three floored, concrete built school in Cambodia that will not only create a place to educate up to 250 local Cambodian children, it will also become the centre for a community in an impoverished area outside Phnom Pehn.
More importantly still, it will create a very tangible and ‘user friendly’ link between the Irish and the Cambodians as we try to encourage as many different people from as many different walks of life to volunteer abroad, in the hope that it will create new avenues for the children over there. We encourage teachers and skilled workers as well as creative people to head over and to teach the kids their respective skill. At times it may not lead to a job in the future, but it would be a source of great fun, and this too in our eyes is a success.
So in order to try and raise the funds needed for a school we are gathering art from all around Ireland and the exhibition and subsequent auction on Sunday the 19th of September. We are extremely proud of the collection that will be presented, it really is a testiment to all the artists who are taking part. The exhibition will launch on the 14th of September with a reception in the beautiful Ormond Wine Bar. This spacious and elegant restaurant/wine bar was in fact previously the Bridge Gallery so we feel it is the perfect venue to hang all the art, and for people to be comfortable whilst enjoying it so.
Like last year, we are working with Mealy’s Fine Art Auctioneers. So far we have secured pieces from Graham Knuttel, the world renowned Anne McCaughey, Lucy Doyle, artist and film-maker Shane Sutton, Academy Award nominee Ross Stewart (for the Secret of Kells), graffiti artist Maser, a signed portrait of Brian O’Driscoll by Mark Baker, Con Campbell, Kelly Hood, Ken Browne, John Nolan, Michael McSwiney, Leonie McMeel, Daire Irwin, Susan Morley, Conor Harrington, Darko, Geraldine O’Sullivan, Carol Hodder, Maria Noonan-McDermott, Thomas Halloran, Morgan, photographer B+, new comers Jason Dunne, Paul ‘Poncho’ Byrne, Killian Dunne, and painting legend Bennie Reilly .
Recently added artists include Karen Wilson, Katarzyna Gajewska, Dorian Van Braam, Carolyn Walsh, Christopher Sweeney, Leo de Freyne, Niall O’Lochlainn, Brian Ballard, Mary Yorke, Attracta Manson and her daughter Sarah Eva Manson, Anthony Chapman, El Mac, Marty Cullen, Stuart Quate, Niamh Slack, Jenny Watkins, Aoife O’Dwyer, Christopher Curran, Joby Hickey, Niki Purcell, Alain Tang, Laurent Antunes, Denise Cassidy, photographer and film-maker Nicky Larkin as well as Brock Butler, Lucia Cullinane Garcia and the Best Emerging Artist in Northern Ireland for 2004; Kelly Gallagher.
More recently added have been: Paul Freeney, ADW, Aoife Joyce, Paula Pohli, Derek Culley, Conor Harrington, Rowena Dring, Ronan Hackett, Cora Murphy, Niki Purcell, Alan O’Connor, Philip Kennedy Fiona Cashell, Helen McNulty, Clodagh Heaney, Roisín O’Farrell, Ciara O’Halloran, Igor Kochajkiewicz, Veronica Vierin, Enda Flynn, Dan Moran, Ania Hardy, Frank O’Dea, Daniel Bourke, Gill Prendeville, Donna McGee, Andy Devane and Elida Maiques.
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