View some of the Artists who donated their work for our auction…

Olia Hercules, born in Ukraine in 1984, later trained at Leiths School of Food and Wine and worked at notable restaurants like Ottolenghi. Her debut cookbook, Mamushka, celebrated her family’s diverse culinary heritage and won the Fortnum & Mason Award for Best Debut Cookbook in 2016. Olia has gone on to publish three more cookbooks, and co-founded the #CookForUkraine movement, raising over £2 million for charities supporting Ukraine.

Founder of the Art in The Extreme collective, Max leverages both traditional and modern media to bring untold stories to a global audience. His adventurous spirit and wanderlust has shaped his artistic journey, leading to bold and unconventional projects. Over the last five years, he became the first artist in decades to paint 10 Downing Street’s exterior and was commissioned for high-profile projects, including portraits for Team GB and heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua.

British contemporary sculptor Nic Fiddian-Green (b. 1963, Hampshire) is recognized worldwide as a highly accomplished and innovative equestrian artist, working in bronze, lead, marble, and copper. One of his most significant pieces is the 12-meter bronze sculpture Still Water at Marble Arch in London (installed in 2011). Fiddian-Green’s works have also been installed in a number of prestigious venues, including Royal Ascot, Goodwood, Glyndebourne, and Southwark Cathedral.

Mark Coreth is an internationally recognised master wildlife sculptor. His work reflects an instinctive understanding of the animals' moods. To date these include a life-size piece of two Cheetahs for the ruling family in Dubai, a life-size figure of a boatman which sits outside Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, a shoal of rays in the Docklands, an intricate 50-piece fountain at the Natural History Museum, an enormous 18-foot-high charging elephant; the subject of a documentary on the Discovery Channel, and much more.

Jane Bustin combines traditional and contemporary materials to explore the relationship between abstract minimalist composition and the sentimental qualities of ceramics, textiles, and found objects. Bustin draws a parallel between her grandmother’s domestic routines and the diligence she applies as an artist. Her use of pale tones, reflective surfaces, and intuitive organisation evokes a tenderness and familiarity, reminiscent of a bedroom vanity, a small space of solace within the home.

Hanna Kryvolap, born in Kyiv, comes from a family deeply rooted in Ukrainian art and culture. Her work has been featured in exhibitions across Germany, the USA, Switzerland, Turkey, the Netherlands, France, and Montenegro, as well as in group shows worldwide. Hanna’s "Unbreakable Cities" series reflects the resilience of Ukrainians amidst the ongoing war, capturing life during blackouts in cities like Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, and Dnipro, inspired by photographs and stories from friends in different regions.

Max Gorbatskyi is a curator at Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool, UK). Together with Viktoria Bavykina, he has been named curator of the Ukrainian Pavillion at the 60th Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 2024. Gorbatskyi's long-time focus has been on contemporary photography and private photo archives. In 2023, they curated the HOME programme, partnering Open Eye Gallery as a parallel programme of Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool, UK. Gorbatskyi is a recipient of the UK government's Chevening Scholarship.

Oksana Lebedieva is the founder of Gen.Ukrainian, an NGO dedicated to psychological rehabilitation of children following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. One of the NGO’s projects, CRYONES, is a collection of artwork and stories created by children who have lost loved ones during the invasion. This compilation stands as a testament to their trauma, offering a powerful expression of their experiences as well as their post-traumatic growth, aided by the psychological support provided by Gen.Ukrainian.