[The Guardian] ‘All of us want to respond’: Australian artists auction works for Israel-Hamas war victims – in pictures

‘All of us want to respond’: Australian artists auction works for Israel-Hamas war victims – in pictures

Ben Quilty, Hoda Afshar, Tom Polo, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Jasper Knight and Jude Rae are among more than 60 artists who have donated works to the auction raising funds for Médecins Sans Frontières’ humanitarian and medical aid efforts in Israel and Palestine.

The auction was organised by artist Nathan Hawkes, who said he was feeling ‘intense distress and despair at watching the horrors unfolding so rapidly’. Quilty said ‘all of us in the arts community feel the world poignantly and powerfully, and all of us want to respond to the crisis’

• Readers can view all artworks and bid online until 4 December

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