Brian Eno donates works for Gaza health workers auction

A group of heavyweight artists including Brian Eno and Antony Gormley have donated works for a black-tie event and auction to raise funds for health workers in Gaza.

The “Seeds of Solidarity” gala dinner and auction, organized by Health Workers 4 Palestine, will take place Sunday at The Savoy hotel in London. All proceeds will go to HW4P’s Health Workers Solidarity Fund to provide financial support to the families of Palestinian health workers and funding for medical training and investments in healthcare rebuilding.

Zayna Al-Saleh, a British Palestinian art dealer and writer, curated the auction. It is presented by lobbyist and lawyer Lina Hadid, and longtime Christie’s auctioneer Hugh Edmeades will conduct the sale.

Eno, known for pioneering ambient music and as a music producer, contributed a 2025 inkjet on somerset velvet print titled Seeing Through to Sky. It is offered with an estimate between £800 and £1,200. Gormley, a Turner Prize-winning sculptor, gave the 2025 inkcap-on-paper artwork Threshold XXIII. It bears an estimate of £22,000 and £27,000.

The artists included in the sale are all museum-established with international exhibition histories and growing institutional presence, Based on the estimates for the 19 lots in the auction catalog, the sale is reasonably expected to raise between £250,000 and £325,000.

The event will include the installation Photosymphony: A Live Plant Orchestra for Palestine by the artist and Lady Gaga collaborator Millie Brown. The work was previously shown at Frieze in Los Angeles, New York and London. It has been reimagined exclusively for the event. The London Arab Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Basel Saleh, will perform.

The auction comes after Nan Goldin, the celebrated diaristic photographer and activist, sold a print of one of her works to support a fundraiser for children in Gaza presented by Rachel Accurso, the children’s educational YouTuber best known as Ms. Rachel.

Accurso organized the benefit sale, titled “Colors That Survived,” with Artists Support, a charitable initiative that partners with artists internationally to raise funds and awareness for various causes. It included prints in editions of 20 of original artwork made by the children and quickly sold out, raising a total of $67,716 from the sale of the children’s art.

Goldin’s donated print of her 2007 photograph Ava twirling sold for $17,000 after bids from just two bidders.

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