Open & Shut - MCF Results

Book 1.

Tickets Sold: 313
Total Value Prior to Ebay & Paypal Fees: £1565

Book 2.

Tickets Sold: 658 (8 ticket sale payments were reversed by Paypal)
Total Value Prior to Ebay & Paypal Fees: £3290

Book 3.

Auction Price: £1900
Delivery: £15:00 (Covered by N Harvey so this £15 will be paid to the Mercy Centre)
Payment Method: Cheque

Single Piece Donations

Dog Byte Original £72.00
Whatson Test Spray Stencil £87.00
Delivery £40.00 (Paid by N Harvey £40 paid to Charity)
XOOOOX Screenprint £32.47
Whatson Test Spray Stencils £34.50
Ripper 1331 Screeprint Veneer £48.50
Delivery £40.00 (Paid by N Harvey £40 paid to Charity)
Ill Joseph Original Drawing £26.00
Delivery £10.00 (Paid by N Harvey £10 paid to Charity)
C215 Hand Finished AP £170.00
Delivery £20.00 (Paid by N Harvey £20 paid to Charity)
Copyright Hand Finished 1/1 £311.00
Delivery £20.00 (Paid by N Harvey £20 paid to Charity)
agentprovocateur Original £37.00
Delivery £10.00 (Paid by N Harvey £10 paid to Charity)
Invader Screenprint £112.00
Delivery £10.00 (Paid by N Harvey £10 paid to Charity)
Stickee Original £47.00
Delivery £10.00 (Paid by N Harvey £10 paid to Charity)
Ged Original £18.53
Delivery £10.00 (Paid by N Harvey £10 paid to Charity)
iAmCxxx Original £112.00
Delivery £50.00 (Paid by N Harvey £50 paid to Charity)
Dog Byte Original £97.00
Delivery £20.00 (Paid by N Harvey £20 paid to Charity)
Angel 41 Original £87.00
Delivery £10.00 (Paid by N Harvey £10 paid to Charity)
David Choe Signed Print £228.18
Delivery £20.00 (Paid by N Harvey £20 paid to Charity)
Rene Gagnon Original £385.00
Delivery £10.00 (Paid by N Harvey £10 paid to Charity)
Jef Soto Print Signed £46.89
Delivery £10.00 (Paid by N Harvey £10 paid to Charity)
Jonathan Weiner Print £41.00
Delivery £10.00 (Paid by N Harvey £10 paid to Charity)
Jonathan Weiner Print £41.00
Delivery £10.00 (Paid by N Harvey £10 paid to Charity)

Adam Neate Gift Print (JBoy) £115.00

Total Single Piece Donations: £2459.07

Ebay and Paypal Fees

Ebay Fees for Single Donations & Book 1,2 &3: £664.13

Paypal Fees for Single Donations & Book 2 & 3: £351.91


Grand Total £8213.03

Thank you to everyone who placed a bid and/or bought tickets helping us to raise such a significant amount for the Mercy Centre Foundation.

Watch this space for details on Open & Shut 2009

Congratulations!!!

The draw for the two raffle books took place today with the results being as follows:

Book 1 Winner of book 1: TERRY JOHN SINNOTT

Book 2 Winner of book 2: BRENDAN MONAHAN

Here are a couple of pics from the draw:



Book 1 Draw:



Book 2 Draw:



Thanks to everyone who bought ticket/s, you've helped us raise a great sum of money for the MCF.

The who were unlucky not to win can bid on a piece of work kindly donated by a great list of artists and galleries here:

Stickee - "Untitled"

XOOOOX - "Sit Lady"

Dog Byte - "Bomb Boy"

Invader - "Space Invader"

agentprovocateur - "Untitled"

Copyright - "Untitled"

C215 - "Dreaming Nina"

Whatson - "Child" & "Untitled"

Whatson - "African Children"

Ripper 1331 - Screenprint on Wood Veneer

Ill Joesph - "Tile Study"

Ged - "Baptism of Fire"

Going, Going, Gone!!!

Well, a huge thanks to everyone who bought tickets for the two books being raffled on Ebay. The items ended yesterday with a total of 969 tickets sold.

This, along with the £1900 (prior to Ebay and PayPal fees) from the auction of Book 3 has raised a massive amount of money for the Mercy Centre Foundation but we're not stopping there. The first lot of individual donations are up for grabs :-

Jonathan Weiner - "Watch Dogs"

Jonathan Weiner - "Tranquil Aftermath"

Jeff Soto - "Tres Flores"

Rene Gagnon - "Mona Bubble"

David Choe - "Falling From Grace"

Angel 41 - "Gimme Some Skin"

Dog Byte - "Bomb Boy"

iAmCxxx - "Am I In A Film When Does It End?"

The second lot of work to be auctioned will be available to bid on from Tuesday 11th November.

Good luck and thank you for your support.

Bloody Ebay!!!

As some of you will have noticed the two sketchbooks were pulled by Ebay after being reported for containing the word Banksy in the description.

We give our apologies but as you'll hopefully understand, this was out of our hands.

But the good news is that they are now back online:

Book 1: HERE

Book 2: HERE

I must stress that ALL previous raffle entries are still valid.

Thank you,

Ged and Neil

GO, GO, GO!!!

In case you hadn't already noticed, 2 of the books are now on Ebay, but, due to Ebay rules they can't be advertised as raffles and so a plan was hatched. To get round this minor problem you are 'purchasing' a sticker for £5 and we will then enter your details in to a draw to win the book from the list you bought the sticker from. Now ofcourse we won't be sending out any stickers, this is purely to get round Ebays rules, but if you really really want one then let us know and we'll send one out to you.

The third book is temporaily in cyber space while Neil trys to reason with the stiff necks at Ebay HQ over the book being pulled from it's original auction. Please bear with us while it gets sorted, all should resume asap.

Please buy tickets.....sorry, stickers below and remember, be as generous as you can:

Book 1

Book 2

For those that may have forgotten, here's a little reminder of all the amazing artists and galleries who have donated their time and effort in helping the MCF appeal.

Jonathan LeVine Gallery
Camp Barbossa
Edge Art
Eddie Lock
Souled Out Studios
Static
Grafter
Art-el
Hip Art Gallery
Brian Jones
Urban Angel
Hang Up Pictures
Nick Walker
Dale Grimshaw
Beejoir
Mr Jago
Chinamike
Rourke
Guy Denning
Jef Aerosol
Matt Small
Miss Bugs
Mau Mau
Goldie
Hush
Neverwork
Herakut
Case
SPQR
Invader
Ged
RYCA
GVD
Angel 41
Stickee
agentprovocateur
Ripper
DogByte
iAmCxxx
Whatson
Rene Gagnon
Opus Underground

"Open & Shut"

This years Open & Shut sketch pads have been put together to help raise funds for the Mercy Centre Foundation

http://www.mercycentre.org/

This is the first of what we hope to be many annual appeals for a different charity each year. Each year will take the format of three sketch pads that will be sent to a group of artists to produce works of their choice to help raise funds for the nominated charity. Next years event will include a limited edition book of the works produced.

This year’s contributors and people of immense generosity are as follows.


Open & Shut - Y2008

Book 1

Beejoir
Mr Jago
Chinamike
Grafter
Rourke
Guy Denning
Jef Aerosol

Book 2

Beejoir
Matt Small
Miss Bugs
Mau Mau
Goldie
Hush
Nick Walker
Neverwork

Book 3

Beejoir
Brian Jones
Dale Grimshaw
Herakut
Case
SPQR
Static

The Main Event

The three books will be auctioned on Ebay with auctions commencing the 11.10.2008 and running for 30 days.

Books 1 & 2 will be raffled on Ebay with each ticket costing £5.00 and with payment strictly by Paypal. The auction will be listed as 100% donation to charity and the payments will be made directly to the Paypal account of the registered charity. In this way we minimise fees and maximise the contribution to the nominated charity. People are more than welcome to buy more than one ticket and the unique reference number issued by Paypal will be used in the raffle process. The two winners will be announced on or around the 18.11.2008.

Book 3 will be auctioned on Ebay with the auction again commencing on the 11.10.2008 and running for 20 days. Payment for this book will be by Paypal or Cheque only. Any Paypal payment will again be made directly to the Paypal account of the registered charity and with all cheques being made out directly to the charity.

Donations – Several Galleries and Artists made very kind separate donations. These will all be auctioned as individual items on Ebay during the month of Oct-08. Payment for these donations will be by Paypal or Cheque only. Any Paypal payment will again be made directly to the Paypal account of the registered charity and with all cheques being made out directly to the charity.

A big thank you to following contributors

Copy Right - Opus Underground
C215 - Opus Underground
Ripper
DogByte
iAmCxxx
Whatson
Rene Gagnon
agentprovocateur
Jonathan LeVines
Stickee
Angel 41
GVD
Ryca
Ill Joseph - Ben Edmonds
XOOOOX - Hang Up Pictures
Invader - Tarik
SPQR

Finally a big thank you to all who helped make this appeal happen. Please dig deep and make this a special event.

Thank You

Neil & Ged

Kindly Donated Originals/Prints:

Stickee: Original




Whatson: Print



Whatson: Original



Whatson: Original



Whatson: Original



iAmCxxx: Original



Dog Byte: Two original canvas' from an edition of 2





Angel 41: Original



Rene Gagnon: Original



XOOOOX: Print (Kindly donated by Hang Up Pictures)



Jonathan Weiner: Print (Kindly donated by Jonathan LeVines)



Jonathan Weiner: Print (Kindly donated by Jonathan LeVines)



Jeff Soto: Print (Donated by Jonathan LeVines)




David Choe: Print (Kindly donated by Jonathan LeVines)



agentprovocateur: Original



Copy Right: 1/1 Hand Finished Print (Kindly donated by Opus Underground)



Ripper: Original



C215: A/P Print (Kindly donated by Opus Underground)



Invader: Print



Ged: Original

Neverwork:

We've had an amazing response from artists and galleries who have been extremely generous and donated work towards the appeal.

Here are those artists and galleries:

(click on the artist or gallery to be taken to their site)

David Choe (Jonathan LeVine Gallery)
Jeff Soto (Jonathan LeVine Gallery)
Jonathan Viner (Jonathan LeVine Gallery)
C215 (Opus Underground)
Copyright (Opus Underground)
Ripper
DogByte
iAmCxxx
Whatson
Rene Gagnon
agentprovocateur
Stickee
Angel 41
GVD
Ryca

Details will follow very shortly on how you can get your hands on these pieces as well as the books detailed below.

Nick Walker:

Hush:

Jef Aerosol:

WeLikeStatic:

Books so far:

Book 1:

Mr Jago
Chinamike
Grafter
Rourke
Guy Denning

Book 2:

Matt Small
Miss Bugs
Goldie
Mau Mau

Book 3:

Brian Jones
Dale Grimshaw
Herakut
Case
SPQR

Goldie:

Guy Denning:

SPQR:

Herakut:



Case:

Rourke: (2nd piece)

Rourke: (1st piece)

Mau Mau:

Grafter:

Quick update on work contributed so far:

Book 1:

Chinamike
Mr Jago
Grafter

Book 2:

Matt Small
Miss Bugs

Book 3:

Brian Jones
Dale Grimshaw

The books are currently in the hands of the next three artists and so photo's will be added once the pieces are completed. Make sure you bookmark this blog and keep checking for more updates.

Details on how you can get your hands on these extremely special and one-off books coming soon. Stay tuned!

Miss Bugs: