The Hepatitis C Trust’s Art on a Postcard is back for its second year at Moniker with postcards and customised car bonnets. The Postcard Lottery was a huge hit at last year’s Moniker Art Fair and sold out before the end. The lottery gives visitors the chance to own an original artwork by one of the many world renowned artists involved. By purchasing a £50 lottery ticket you are guaranteed to win a postcard size work of art from the likes of Harland Miller, Peter Blake, Ally McIntyre, Brad Downey, Zsofia Schweger, Inkie, Eelus, Pure Evil and Rugman.
On the Art on a Postcard stand there will also be customised car bonnets by Jake and Dinos Chapman and Bob and Roberta Smith. Five hundred £25 lottery tickets will be made available for the chance to own one of these unique works of art, giving the lottery ticket holders a one in two hundred and fifty chance of owning artwork by major British contemporary artist.
Gemma Peppé, Director of Art on a Postcard says “Using art as a vehicle to raise awareness can be very powerful. By joining forces with Moniker we can reach a demographic who otherwise may never engage with the charity and save lives as a result.” Tickets for the Bonnet Lottery will be available online at www.artonapostcard.com on Monday 22nd September and at Moniker Art Fair. Tickets for the Postcard Lottery will be available online at www.artonapostcard.com on Monday 3rd October and at Moniker Art Fair.
Art on a Postcard raises money for The Hepatitis C Trust. The Hepatitis C Trust is the national UK charity for hepatitis C. It was founded and is now led and run by people with personal experience of hepatitis C and almost all of our Board, staff and volunteers either have hepatitis C or have had it and cleared it after treatment. Historically, hepatitis C has been neglected, partly because there has been no concerted patient voice. People with hepatitis C have typically kept quiet because it is infectious and because it has been wrongly stigmatised as ‘a drug users’ disease’.
The Trust is committed to changing this by:
• raising public awareness that this is a virus that can be contracted in many ways
• ending discrimination against people living with hepatitis C
• creating an active community of patients willing to stand up and be heard
• providing information, support and representation for people with hepatitis C
Art on a Postcard raises money for The Hepatitis C Trust through an annual secret postcard auction and ‘postcard lotteries’ which occur throughout the year. They have had work donated from well established artists such as Peter Blake, Damien Hirst, Harland Miller, Gavin Turk, Rachel Howard, Gilbert and George, Polly Morgan, John Wragg RA, Stephen Chambers RA, Michael Craig-Martin and Cecily Brown as well as emerging talent such as David Shillinglaw, Hayden Kays and Daisy Cook as well as urban artists, Ben Eine, Pure Evil and Inkie and photographers Dougie Wallace and Rankin. Art on a Postcard believes that Hepatitis C can be eliminated as a major public health concern by 2030, and all funds raised support The Hepatitis C Trust in their campaign to achieve this goal. In 2015 Scotland signed up to our program of elimination. This year they hope to lobby Westminster to do the same.
No comments:
Post a Comment