This year we have works from several artists to choose from. Each one is a limited edition. Your contribution will go towards feeding local families at Christmas, a time when food poverty is especially acute, and you will receive one of the donated pieces of art.

As Christmas is fast approaching, the opportunity is time-limited! Order by midnight on Wednesday 18 December!

This effort is part of our ongoing No More Growing Up Poor Campaign (see more info, photos, and videos about the campaign here). This work has come out of our deep concern about the conditions we have been living in within Newcastle's West End. As food prices rise and our government continues to fail to take effective action against unprecedented levels of child poverty in the UK, working together to make sure we have food to eat and solidarity to keep us from giving up hope for a better future is more important than ever. We will keep up the campaign work and your donations to support a happy Christmas break will enable us to know you are with us so we can come back stronger in 2025 to keep fighting back! 

Charlotte Cook

Lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (b. Hull). Their work has been exhibited and commissioned in Japan, the Netherlands, England, and Denmark, including, 6okken, Japan; Arts Council England; 87 Gallery, Hull; Foldyard Gallery, Berwick upon Tweed; NDSM Fuse, Netherlands; Copeland Park, London; Random Acts North, Channel 4 online; Art Weekend Aarhus, Denmark; Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle; Ferens, Hull; Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle; Abject Gallery, Newcastle and Newbridge Project, Newcastle.

The work: 

What does she help you with?

This postcard features a still from the film '🕛 hey bby our horizon is coming, let’s stop 🌑'. The image captures the often intangible ways we care for one another and the potentials of this care, illuminated under a starry horizon.

Send to a friend, carer, lover or display as a small print.

Material: 350gsm paper with additional silver foil detailing

Measurements: 105 x 148mm (A6)

15 are available, from a limited run.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/littlemissnoface/profilecard/?igsh=YXM4eDhpOXIxOWo2

Website: https://cargocollective.com/charlottecook/

Thiago Ponsancini

My name is Thiago Ponsancini, a Newcastle based artist who's been following the amazing work carried out by Food & Solidarity for the last few years. I am thrilled to somehow help a bit with their work by donating a commission voucher for one of my abstract art pieces, allowing the winner to commission an artwork up to 100cm x 100cm on a deep side canvas (unframed). This size is typically valued at £320, and the creation process will take approximately five weeks to complete. A perfect opportunity to bring bespoke art into your home whilst contributing to such a worthwhile cause.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artbyponsancini/

Website: https://ponsancini.co.uk/ 

Laura Harrington - Micro-movements moving mountains, Val d’Anniviers, 2023

Risograph print (29cm x 42cm), edition of 100

Micro-movements are the small, personal and bodily practices which speak to a form of action that seeks localised connections and tangible approaches. These provide space for seemingly inconsequential gestures and movements to re-orientate experiences as manifold. Drawing on the various immersions, playful energies, creativity and embodied acts of engagement that we – the Temporal School of Experimental Geography (TSOEG) team – explored whilst in Val d’Anniviers, this risograph attempts to bring scalar perspectives and multiple bodies into convergence. Through the repetitive movements of hand drawn lines, the print moves mountains –utilising the peaks visited through a TopoRando Val d'Anniviers: Sierre-Vercorin map – along the same lines as the caddisflies which exist on, and in these mountains, move lithic matter. Co-produced with ALTER- 2nd edition alter-anniviers.com

Laura Harrington is an artist, researcher and organiser living and working in the North East of England. Her work considers the complex relations between humans and landscapes, often through fieldwork, cross-disciplinary research and collaborative working, engaging in long-term co-productive practices with landscape. For twelve years she has worked in north east uplands, peatlands and rivers, embedding what age calls upstream consciousness – a framework that connects these ecologies to global currents – at the core of her practice.

Over many years she has developed dialogues with other artists, ecologists and physical scientists with specific ecological environments and these discussions form the bedrock of a process-based enquiry. Recent projects use a variety of methods and media, including filmmaking, audiovisual installation, public engagement, felting, drawing, fieldwork and listening. For example: Fieldworking (2020) included an artists’ camp, public field-trips, publication, film, plus a workshop that drew on aspects of the ‘boggy’ methods explored in relation to an urban environment; whereas Liveliest of Elements an Ordinary Extraordinary Material (2014) invited audiences into a disused mine shaft to experience a film work developed through extensive research around peatland erosion with a geomorphologist; and Where are the Wild Ones?(2012) combined scientific data and local school children’s imaginations to consider the journey of the Atlantic salmon into a new audiovisual opera, leading to a project with RADAR, Loughborough in 2022 about return, zoogeomorphology and time.

In 2022 she was awarded a practice-based PhD from Northumbria University, UK for my research exploring artists’ fieldwork activities as a means to consider new ecological, spatial and material understandings.

She has been supported through a range of international residencies and commissions funded by arts councils, foundations, cultural and academic institutions, regional arts organisations and environmental agencies. Recent exhibitions and residencies include ALTER- (Switzerland), WaterLands/iCasp, Leeds University, RADAR, Loughborough University, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, (UK), NewBridge Projects (UK), UGM/EKO8 (Slovenia), MIMA, (UK), UNIDEE/Cittadellarte (Italy), Hangmen Projects (Stockholm), HIAP (Finland), and Invisible Dust (UK)

Diego Garcia-Mejuto

Diego Garcia-Mejuto is an architect by training, but he now just draws buildings for fun. He likes cities, ink, and simplicity.

Website: https://www.instagram.com/inkingthecity/

Order this and Diego will draw your house or another building or urban scene that you choose once you provide him with details (e.g. a photograph of the building).

This is limited to 3 total since these are bespoke drawings. Drawings will be completed by the end of January 2025.