Event Details
invite to the MerzBarn Fundraising Auction.pdf (104Kb)
The auction is being organized to raise funds to pay for the Merz Barn’s restoration and longer term care and conservation. We are inviting artists, architects, and other sponsors to support the restoration project by donating art works for the Merz Barn restoration fundraising auction, which will take place at the Royal College of Art, London, at 6.00pm on Thursday 7th May.
Richard Hamilton is the Merz Barn fundraising patron.
Sotheby’s are the Merz Barn art auction advisors.
Richard Hamilton and LITTORAL Trust Director Ian Hunter discuss the Merz Barn fundraising campaign at Tate Britain
online_auction_1106.pdf (540Kb)
Recently revised (8pm, 15th June 2009)
Artists who have kindly agreed to donate works to SAVE THE MERZ BARN:
(Click on name to view artwork)
CLIVE BARKER
THE BOYLE FAMILY
SIMON CUTTS/Coracle Press
LEE DALBY
JOHN DARWELL
SHEZAD DAWOOD
TACITA DEANE
HERMAN DE VRIES
MICHAEL DRUKS
BILL DRUMMOND
CHRIS DRURY
JANE EXLEY/The Woolly Rug Company
PETER FEND
SIR ANTONY GORMLEY
MAGGI HAMBLING
JANN HAWORTH
TIM HEAD
SUSAN HILLER
DAMIEN HIRST
TESS JARAY
OWEN JONES
BRYAN KNEALE
RADOVAN KRAGULY
GYONGY LAKY
LANGLANDS AND BELL
BRUCE MCLEAN
PAUL MATOSIC
NICK MAY
DAVID MEDALLA
KEVIN O’CONNOR
CHRIS ORR
JILL ROCK
TERRY SETCH
DAVID TREMLETT
KEITH WILSON
The proceeds from the 2009 Merz Barn fundraising art auction will be used to fund the initial programme of restoration and conservation work planned during 2009 - 2010. This aims to:
i) Preserve and restore the Merz Barn, by undertaking urgent basic repairs, and later implementing a major architectural and structural restoration programme of work to stabilise the building and so ensure its future survival and upkeep;
ii) Undertake a related programme of restoration and art conservation work on the surviving Merz Barn artwork held at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University;
iii) Commission the production of a full-scale, digitally scanned 3D reconstruction of the Merz wall artwork, and to re-install this in its original location inside the restored Merz Barn at Elterwater.
How much will it cost, and how long will it take? It is estimated that the initial Merz Barn restoration part of programme and reconstruction work (2009-10) will cost about £750,000. The overall Cylinders site development programme will take about another two years (and £1.7million+) to complete (2010 – 2012). This includes plans for the conversion of the nearby shippon and farm buildings to house; an international Kurt Schwitters study centre, a Merz Barn/Merzbau museum, a studio and community education gallery, and the surrounding woodlands, orchards and fields, etc., fully restored and upgraded in time for the official public opening in mid-2012.
See Project Development for more details.
Spadeadam, UNITED KINGDOM
