SCOOP Foundation’s 2021 Contemporary Charity Art Auction – Live & Online
On 23rd April, the 12th annual SCOOP Foundation Art Auction kicks off the largest online Contemporary Art Auction in Irish history.
The SCOOP Foundation, which stands for ‘Supporting Children Out Of Poverty’, was set up in 2009 by Irish brothers Andy and Calvin Sweeney.
The Sweeney brothers have a background in the music scene; with experience gigging and promoting, as well as DJing, they merged these skills together to tackle the world’s problems their own way. Currently operating in the Middle East and at home here in Ireland, SCOOP believes in supporting and educating the next generation, especially young people at home and abroad who are suffering through no fault of their own.
We’ve seen SCOOP grow their organisation to support a wide range of projects – from school buildings, to remote education programmes for young displaced kids in the Middle East and for young people living in Direct Provision Centres here in Ireland – through their unique, inventive fundraising events using contemporary arts and music.
This includes the continuous success with their SCOOP Art Auctions, which have now become the backbone of their annual fundraising endeavours.
The flagship event has come a long way since the first one kicked off in May 2009 with approximately 60 – 70 artworks and raised €16,000.
In May 2020’s Art Auction, they raised an incredible €88,600, doubling their expected income! And this is thanks to the digital acceleration we’ve seen in the last year. When lockdown was announced and all cultural events were cancelled, SCOOP had to ‘pivot’ their fundraising campaigns, just like every other charity. And the pivoting of the Auction event worked wonderfully in their favour as moving the event online vastly increased their reach.
This years art auction, SCOOP have 250+ artists on board, with 350+ artworks up for auction over 4 days. They will also be dividing the final hammer price 50/50 with the artists.
They believe this will not only support artists during these difficult times AND raise the funds they need to continue their work, but they believe it has led to a slightly more unique, and more exciting, selection of artworks being included.
Raising funds for vulnerable young people at home & abroad
This year’s Art Auction is raising funds to support the implementation of SCOOP Ed, an accumulation of programmes aimed to support young Internally Displaced People (IDP’s) living in camps in Iraq and refugees living in Direct Provision Centres in Ireland, with their educational, creative and psycho-social development.
2021 Art Auction Key Dates & Times
So, be sure to join SCOOP and hundreds of supporters on the 23rd, 24th, 25th & 26th April, and check out the timetable for each day by clicking here! This will be epic.
The event will be streamed live from the Copper House Gallery in Dublin, whereby SCOOP founders Andy & Calvin will be hosting. To place bids on this year’s artworks, you must create an account and register as a bidder via Invaluable – this only takes a couple of minutes.
You can broadcast the Art Auction live from Invaluable.com either on your desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile.
To learn more about what SCOOP Foundation do, head over to their website: www.scoopfoundation.org
Social media handle: @scoopfoundation
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