Leading artists including Antony Gormley and Brian Eno have donated works to an art auction supporting medical professionals in Gaza.
The Seeds of Solidarity auction, organised by a coalition called Health Workers 4 Palestine, will take place on 1 February at the Savoy hotel in London. Proceeds will support the Gaza Medics Solidarity Fund, which provides stipends to doctors working in the enclave, and supports mobile clinics and the reconstruction of maternity wards.
The auction features works by 21 visual artists in total, also including Mona Hatoum, Lisa Brice, Caroline Walker, Alison Wilding, Sam Durant, Rana Begum and Hassan Hajjaj, who contributed a portrait of hip-hop artist Yassin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def).
The Turner Prize-winning sculptor Gormley, whose auction record stands at £5.3m, has given the inkcap-on-paper work Threshold XXIII (2025) to the sale, while the musician and visual artist Eno has donated the inkjet-on-velvet Seeing Through to Sky (2025). In 1994 Eno collaborated with David Bowie on an exhibition that became one of the first major fundraisers for War Child, a charity dedicated to children affected by conflict.
The founder of Health Workers 4 Palestine is Omar Abdel-Mannan, a London-based doctor who accompanied the first Gazan child to be evacuated to the UK for medical aid in July 2025.
“The auction is a reminder that art can be a form of action,” he tells The Art Newspaper. “At a moment when healthcare workers in Gaza are operating amid extraordinary violence and deprivation, this auction brings together creative voices and public conscience to offer tangible support.”
He added: “The generosity of artists donating their work transforms the auction into a wider act of solidarity—where every piece sold represents not only creativity, but a commitment to protecting life, affirming dignity, and insisting that culture has a role to play in moments of profound injustice.”
The sale is curated by Zayna Al-Saleh, the British-Palestinian curator behind the Voices of Palestine auctions, which has raised over $1.4m over the last two years. Al-Saleh’s previous auctions have included works by Banksy, Peter Doig and Jeremy Deller.
The fundraiser takes on particular urgency as more than 1,700 health workers have been killed in Gaza since the war began on 7 October 2023. More than half the territory’s healthcare infrastructure has been destroyed and 15,000 people require evacuation for medical treatment abroad. Despite a US-mediated ceasefire signed on 10 October 2025, 37 international aid organisations, including Oxfam, Save The Children, and Médecins Sans Frontières, continue to report being blocked from entering the territory.
Since Hamas’s attack on 7 October 2023, which killed more than 1,200 Israelis and in which more than 250 people were taken hostage, more than 71,000 Palestinians are estimated to have been killed in Gaza in total, many of the victims women and children, according to the local heath authority.
The auction will take place as part of a broader gala event bringing together artists, cultural figures, and medical leaders. Performers include the Arab Orchestra and the performance artist Millie Brown, who is known for her Lady Gaga collaborations. Speakers include the doctors Ghassan Abu Sitta, recognised globally for conflict medicine and emergency surgical care in Gaza, and Victoria Rose, who has undertaken multiple humanitarian missions to the region since 2018.
The full auction catalogue is available online
