Online art auction to support the world’s homeless children

by Kim Mullahey · May 17, 2020

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LIVE bidding will be the way to obtain works ‘From Street to Fine Art’ when the SCOOP Foundation art auction opens later this month in homes around the world.

Supporting Children out of Poverty, the SCOOP Foundation was opened in 2009 by brothers Andrew and Calvin James Sweeney with the mission of helping homeless children around the world.

Scoop Foundation co-founder Andrew Sweeney, pictured at one of the international charity’s projects

The auction of 81 works will take place live online in the home of charity founders Andrew Sweeney and his brother Calvin James on Saturday and Sunday, 23^rd-24^th May.

“We are beyond excited to host our annual art auction fully online from our home to yours,” said the brothers in a joint statement released on the Irish NGO’s website. “This year by the power of technology we are going live and online. Thanks to the overwhelming response from artists our biggest fundraiser, the Art Auction, allows us to continue our work supporting children and young people out of poverty here in Ireland and internationally.”

Since the brothers founded the registered charity, SCOOP has taken on projects including an orphanage and three schools in Cambodia and saved a school in India from closing through four years of support before turning their attention to war-torn Syria.

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Funding raised through the art auction later this month will recognise the ongoing part played by the charity’s creative sector.

“This year, recognising the long-term impact of Covid 19 on the creative sector including those artists who have supported SCOOP so generously over the past 10 years we are allocating funds to establish the SCOOP Artist Studio to provide working space for young emerging Irish artists,” the Sweeney brothers explained. “All artworks will be presented on our Facebook page in the coming days along with details of how to bid.”