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Acknowledgements
CARA is most grateful to Pentagram Designs Ltd, Calverts and Staffords Gallery
for their generous support and in-kind sponsorship of this 80th Anniversary CARA
Auction. A special thank you to Sarah Greaves, Curator of the New Hall Art Collection,
Cambridge; Barbara Rowell, Managing Partner of Jacaranda Images, Amman, Jordan;
and to Anita O’Brien, Curator of The Cartoon Museum, London, for helping to secure
the support of artists, as well as to Private Eye, ToonPool, ICORN and Freemuse for
helping to spread the word. Our thanks also go to Sir Tim Rice, Dr Sussan Babaie and
Dr Richard L. Harmon, and Frances Marx, for contributing pieces from their personal
collections, and to Lizzie Ballantyne for her tireless patience, Jamie Mason for
maintaining the smile, and to Sophie Camu, Camu Art Ltd, for her invaluable advice.
We have been overwhelmed by the extraordinary response and generosity of the
artists who have donated work and are extremely grateful to those who have shared
their and their families’ stories of exile. CARA and its beneficiaries are deeply indebted
to you all and we hope to do you justice in respect of the funds we raise at the auction
in support of the CARA Fellowship Scheme. CARA would also like to thank the Syrian
cartoonist, Ali Al Ferzat, for his permission to reproduce some of his cartoons.
Last but not least, CARA would like extend its thanks to its much abused interns,
Mary Atkinson and Elise Hannaford, for all their hard work in bringing this event together,
in twisting arms, and in helping to compile the catalogue, as well as to Stephanie
Stafford for her invaluable research and drafting for additional catalogue content.
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old school values and new ways of working to help turn your ideas into compelling
communications. www.calverts.coop? www.jmuirbookbinders.co.uk
Cartoon Museum London The Cartoon Museum preserves and promotes
the best of British cartoons, caricatures, comics and animation. From Gillray to
Steve Bell, Heath Robinson to Dennis the Menace, it aims to make the creativity of
cartoon and comic art, past and present, accessible to all for learning and enjoyment.
www.cartoonmuseum.org
Jacaranda Images is a gallery dedicated to showcasing original art prints
and works on paper. Screen prints, etchings, lithographs, photographs, as well as
reproductions and posters, are collected from the Arab region and around the
globe and are shown in a continuously changing environment.
www.jacarandaimages.com
Mosaic Syria is a small international team based in London who provide urgent
humanitarian assistance, such as shelter, medical aid, food and clothing, to those
most in need inside Syria and within refugee communities in neighbouring countries.
Since 2011, it has taken part in several cultural initiatives to help raise awareness
of the conflict and funds. In 2013, Mosaic organised a contemporary art exhibition
#withoutwords: Emerging Syrian Artists with P21 Gallery in London. Three works

from two young artists included in the exhibition are included in the auction. 30% of
their sale price will be donated to CARA. www.mosaicsyria.org
New Hall Art Collection The New Hall Art Collection, consisting solely of work
by women artists, has evolved through gifts and loans since 1986. It is a growing body
of approximately 450 works and is the most significant collection of its kind in Europe.
Prestigious artists such as Maggi Hambling CBE, Dame Paula Rego and Judy Chicago
have donated works. www.art.newhall.cam.ac.uk
Pentagram Designs Ltd. Founded in 1972 by three graphic designers,
an industrial designer and an architect, Pentagram is the world’s largest independent
multi-disciplinary design consultancy. The firm is owned and run by 19 partners,
a group of friends who are all leaders in their individual creative fields. With offices in
London, New York, San Francisco, Berlin and Austin, Pentagram designs everything –
architecture, interiors, products, identities, posters, publications, books, exhibitions,
websites and digital installations. www.pentagram.com
Sophie Camu is a private art adviser specialising in Impressionist and Modern Art.
After 10 years as a senior specialist at Sotheby’s, she set up Camu Art Ltd in 2010
to represent private collectors in the sale and acquisition of fine art. For further
information: www.camuart.com
Staffords Gallery is a family-owned and run professional picture-framing
business in Central London, whose partners include the Saatchi Gallery, The Royal
Opera House and Tim Bryars Ltd Antiquarian Books Maps & Prints. They combine
decades of knowledge and experience, not just of picture framing, but related
aspects including interior design, colour planning, environmental and green issues,
conservation and restoration, and the repair of damaged frames and artwork.
Their Covent Garden workshop is open seven days a week. All materials are
responsibly sourced, with use of recycled material where possible. They offer
materials for arts and crafts to schools and other community groups, and donate art
prints to schools in India and Africa. www.staffordsgallery.co.uk

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