# Art on a Postcard Secret Auction raises £74k for The Hepatitis C Trust

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/12/05/art-postcard-secret-auction-raises-74k-hepatitis-c-trust/
- Published: 2016-12-05T09:00:50+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Postcards by artists including Damien Hirst, Grayson Perry, Maggie Hambling, Oliver
Jeffers, Peter Blake, Harland Miller, and Gilbert & George have helped raise £74,000
for [The Hepatitis C Trust](http://www.hepctrust.org.uk/).**

The Art on a Postcard Secret Auction took place last month, hosted by The Auction
Room at Bloomsbury House, with more than 400 postcards by famous artists as well
as Royal Academicians such as Ken Howard RA, Mick Rooney RA, John Wragg RA, Rebecca
Salter RA, and Steven Farthing RA, and emerging talent.

[⌊art on  postcard⌉⌊art on  postcard⌉[

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All the works were offered without attribution and artists’ names remained anonymous
until the end of the auction. A postcard by Grayson Perry, Lot 279 (main image),
was the winning lot, raising £4,000, with prints available [online](http://www.artonapostcard.com/secret-auction-prints).

Gemma Peppé, director, Art on A Postcard, said:

> “At the start of this project in 2014, we were conscious to create something that
> was truly inclusive and engaging but that also was true to our current economic
> and political landscape. Postcard sized artwork does just that. Small works of
> art are a symbol of the austerity we have been living through, economical for 
> our artists to make and our audience to buy, perfectly sized to fit easily onto
> the wall of a London apartment, and if none of the above, great, collectible, 
> artworks in their own merit.”

Image credit: Alex Maguire Photography

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