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Fine Cell Work: Human Touch

26 February 2020 - 03 March 2020 | London
  • Ai Weiwei
    Odyssey in Quilting,
    2019
    Courtesy Fine Cell Work
    ©Ai Weiwei

  • Bob and Roberta Smith
    Art Makes People Powerful,
    2019
    Courtesy Fine Cell Work
    ©Bob and Roberta Smith

  • Idris Khan
    Numbers – a hand-sewn photograph,
    2019
    Courtesy Fine Cell Work
    ©Idris Khan

  • Annie Morris
    Hope From a Thin Line,
    2019
    Courtesy Fine Cell Work
    ©Annie Morris

  • Carolina Mazzolari
    Void
    , 2019
    Courtesy Fine Cell Work
    ©Carolina Mazzolari

  • Francis Upritchard
    The Artists,
    2019
    Courtesy Fine Cell Work
    ©Francis Upritchard

  • Cornelia Parker
    ‘Bitter/Sweet (verso)’
    , 2019
    Courtesy Fine Cell Work
    ©Cornelia Parker

  • Wolfgang Tillmans
    No Man Is An Island – a cushion
    , 2020
    Courtesy Fine Cell Work
    ©Wolfgang Tillmans

Sale Number: L29999
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Ai Weiwei Collaborates with Prisoners on their Journey to Rehabilitation

Sotheby’s is delighted to host the Human Touch exhibition, a ground-breaking collaboration between international contemporary artists and stitchers working in prisons, trained by this leading charity and social enterprise.  The participating artists are: Ai Weiwei, Idris Khan, Caroline Mazzolari, Annie Morris, Cornelia Parker, Bob and Roberta Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans and Francis Upritchard -  working with each artists narrative and to their precise instructions, highly skilled prisoners based around the UK have stitched the works.

If you are interested in bidding on any of these works please go to FINE CELL WORK, where all proceeds will go towards enabling prisoners across Britain to build fulfilling and crime free-lives by training them to do high-quality creative needlework, and thereby helping to foster hope, discipline and self-esteem.

Exhibition Dates:
26 February to 3 March
9-4.30pm weekdays only

Ai Weiwei Collaborates with Prisoners on their Journey to Rehabilitation

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+44 20 7293 5392
julie.noble@sothebys.com
Riccardo Freddo
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+44 20 7293 6706
riccardo.freddo@sothebys.com
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