“It’s the children who suffer the most in so many ways”: Over 50 artists to take part in Kate Bush-backed fundraising project for War Child

Kate Bush is involved in Sound And Vision, a fundraising project for War Child that will see 52 artists auction off works that see them respond to a line in Running Up That Hill.

The line is: ‘If only I could, I’d make a deal with God’ and the idea is, inspired by those words, the artists go off and make their own creations. Among those taking part are Peter Doig, widely regarded as one of Britain’s greatest living artists, whose works regularly sell for telephone digit sums – his Swamped was sold at auction for almost $40 million in 2021; as well as Maggi Hambling, the so-called ‘original bad girl of British art’ whose work can be seen in the permanent collections at the National Portrait Gallery, National Gallery, the V&A and the Tate.

The online auction starts in two weeks time from Tuesday 28 October, concluding on Thursday 13 November. All proceeds will go to War Child, which supports children caught in war zones around the world.