Thursday, April the 22nd the incognito Art Sale started at 10 AM.

Thursday, April the 22nd the incognito Art Sale started at 10 AM. There were over eight and a half thousand postcard-sized artworks by over three thousand artists sold online in under two hours raising over half a million euro for The Jack and Jill foundation.

The Jack and Jill foundation provides crucial nursing care in the homes of critically ill children and it was with huge pride that Arklow Visual Arts were able to encourage some of their members to rise to the challenge of producing small works for the worthy cause.

Each postcard was sold without the name of the creator revealed to the purchaser until the sale was complete.

The Artists at Ballyrogan raised more than six hundred euro towards the nursing care for children through the incognito sale.

Arklow Artists also took part in a further charity Art Auction that took place from Friday to Monday, with fewer Artists and larger works of art and no concealing of the artist’s names.

This was the SCOOP (Supporting Children Out Of Poverty) the mechanics of the auction were handled by the invaluable.com platform, and the Copper House Gallery in Dublin for a venue to broadcast the event from.

Nearly four hundred artworks came under the hammer and you could see the estimates and the details of the various artists and their careers. There were a lot of artists that didn’t reach their estimates so a good few bargains were had. The buyers get bargains and the sellers also support the cause of helping children out of poverty, by donating the many and varied works.

Not all the works were made by artists currently represented by the commercial galleries so although there were a lot of works that were in that bland genre ‘Of in the style of paintings that sell’, however, there were others that were challenging in content and execution; an exciting cross-section of the vibrant work of creative persons engaged in Art, both young and old. There had been a chance to acquire work by artists that were represented in some major Irish collections, and others have been making private sales to foreign buyers.

The Artists from Ballyrogan donated eight small pieces and they raised over 2,000 euro for the children’s charity. The total raised over the weekend was over 232,000.00 euro.