'This year’s art was sold to support Demilitarise Education (dED) which co-hosted the event.' Photo: Jinsella, dED founder, with Ed Hall’s banner for Art the Arms Fair
Art the Arms Fair hosts successful auction
'£15,000 Raised by Art the Arms Fair in its recent auction.'
Art the Arms Fair (AAF), the partly-Quaker-founded arts exhibition, has been hailed a success, amassing £15,000 in total sales. The award-winning event, hosted every two years to coincide with Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI), culminated with a private view party featuring a performance piece by artist Sharon Rose and attracting more than 150 attendees. Carmen Wilson, from AAF, told the Friend that Jeremy Deller’s William Morris Was Right prints sold out in eight hours. Meanwhile, the ‘long-standing and respected UK activist banner-maker Ed Hall made a custom “dED” banner for us to keep’.
