The SCOOP Foundation to auction off over 100 exciting pieces of art in order to build a new primary school in Cambodia. Graham Knuttel, Shane Sutton, Lucy Doyle, Maser, Niall O'Loughlin, Mark Baker, John Morris and many many more take part.
The SCOOP Foundation's Art Auction & Exhibition 2010. The Ormond Bar, Ormond Quay, Dublin. Launches the 14th of September. Actual auction is on the Sunday the 19th of September at 5pm.
What: The 2nd Annual SCOOP Art Auction
Where: The Ormond Wine Bar, 6 Ormond Quay Upper, Dublin 2.
When: Launches the Tuesday the 14th of September at 7.30pm. Pieces remain on show til Sunday the 19th. Items go to auction on Sunday the 19th of September at 5pm SHARP.
On Tuesday the 14th of September 2010 at 7.30pm, The SCOOP (Save Children Out Of Poverty), a new and innovateive Irish charity, is launching their 2nd annual Art Auction & Exhibition (with a wine and food 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 the SCOOP tries 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.
So in order to try and raise the funds needed for the school they have gathered art from all aroundIreland. "We are extremely proud of the collection that will be presented" says SCOOP Founder Andy Sweeney, "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, they are working with Mealy's Fine Art Auctioneers. They have secured pieces from Graham Knuttel, the world renowned Anne McCaughey, a signed portrait of Brian O'Driscoll by Mark Baker, an exclusive painting from Lucy Doyle, artist and film-maker Shane Sutton, Academy Award nominee Ross Stewart (for the Secret of Kells), graffiti artist Maser, Con Campbell, Kelly Hood, Ken Browne, John Nolan, Michael McSwiney, Leonie McMeel, Daire Irwin, Susan Morley, Darko, Colin Martin, Geraldine O’Sullivan, Carol Hodder, Thomas Halloran, Morgan, photographer B+, new comers Jason Dunne, Paul 'Poncho' Byrne, Killian Dunne, and painting legend Bennie Reilly .
Other featured artists include Karen Wilson, Katarzyna Gajewska, Dorian Van Braam, Carolyn Walsh, Leo de Freyne, Niall O’Lochlainn, Brian Ballard, Mary Yorke, Attracta Manson and her daughter Sarah Eva Manson, Anthony Chapman, Marty Cullen, Stuart Quate, Niamh Slack, Paul Freeney, ADW Jenny Watkins, Aoife O'Dwyer, Christopher Curran, Joby Hickey, Niki Purcell, AlainTang, 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.
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Andy Sweeney
Chief Executive Officer
The S.C.O.O.P. Foundation
(Save Children Out Of Poverty)
Looking out for the little guy.
