SECRET 7” UNVEILS SLEEVE DESIGNERS FOR 2024
February 7, 2024
700 ARTISTS, DESIGNERS & CREATIVES HAVE PRODUCED 700 ONE-OF-A-KIND 7” RECORDS FOR WAR CHILD
ALL RECORDS TO BE EXHIBITED AT NOW GALLERY & ONLINE AUCTION RUNNING ON PEGGY FROM 2ND - 17TH MARCH 2024,
TACITA DEAN
SIR PAUL SMITH
RANKIN
CHO HUI-CHIN
JAMIE HEWLETT
TOM DIXON
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON
STANLEY DONWOOD
HELEN BEARD
SUE WEBSTER
BOB & ROBERT SMITH
ANTHONY LISTER / PURE EVIL / HUMPHREY OCEAN / MORAG MYERSCOUGH / KATE GIBB / JEAN JULIET / STUART SEMPLE / ANTHONY BURRILL / BABAK GANJEI / ROB RYAN / GREGOR HILDEBRANDT....
... AND MANY MORE
VISIT THE SECRET 7” WEBSITE FOR MORE CONTRIBUTORS & GALLERY OF SLEEVES
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NOW GALLERY, UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP AND PEGGY
Secret 7”, the much loved anonymous charity record sleeve sale that marries world leading artists with legendary musicians, will return for the first time in four years this March. Originally running from 2012 - 2020, Secret 7” captured the imaginations of record collectors and art connoisseurs alike by bringing the two artforms together with the help of a surprise element. Having raised over £500,000 for charity causes in its first iteration, the much-loved Secret 7” project
is now being relaunched by War Child to support its goal of ensuring a safe future for every child affected by war.
For the uninitiated, Secret 7” asks 7 iconic musicians to provide a track, each of which features on a limited edition pressing of 100 7” vinyl records. Artists from all over the world, ranging from the world’s biggest artists to talented newcomers, contribute unique sleeve designs, creating 700 one-of-a-kind records. All 700 records will be displayed in a free public exhibition at NOW Gallery in Greenwich Peninsula, and then sold via online auction on Peggy. Anyone can bid to win. The catch? The designer of the sleeve will only be revealed once the sleeve has been purchased. Therein lies the secret.
After much anticipation, Secret 7” can finally reveal the sleeve contributors for this year’s project. Among the 700 designs are: acclaimed British artist Tacita Dean; iconic British fashion designer Sir Paul Smith; one of the most influential names in modern photography and film, Rankin; contemporary artist Cho Hui-Chin; artist, designer and co-creator of Gorillaz, Jamie Hewlett; multidisciplinary Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson and many more.
Additional contributors include: Stanley Donwood, Bob & Roberta Smith, Helen Beard, Sue Webster, Tom Dixon, Morag Myerscough, Antony Burrill and many, many more. They’ll be joined by artists chosen via an open submission.
All designers have created one-of-a-kind artwork for their choice of this year’s iconic seven tracks:
Aurora - ‘A Different Kind of Human’
Celeste - ‘Stop This Flame’
Hozier - ‘Swan Upon Leda’
Siouxsie & The Banshees - ‘Lullaby’
Paul McCartney - ‘Pipes of Peace’
The Chemical Brothers feat. Beck - ‘Skipping Like A Stone’
The Specials - ‘We Sell Hope’
The 700 records will go on display in a free exhibition, open Monday - Friday 10am - 7pm; Saturdays 10am - 5pm; Sundays 11am - 4pm at NOW Gallery on Greenwich Peninsula from 2 - 17 March. The online auction on auction platform Peggy will run simultaneously, meaning people will be able to bid directly on their favourite sleeves as they’re going round the exhibition. All money raised from the auction will support War Child’s work with children affected by conflict.
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NOTES TO EDITORS
SECRET 7”
Exhibition dates: 2 - 17 March 2024
NOW Gallery at Greenwich Peninsula
www.nowgallery.co.uk
Free Entry
PRESS INFORMATION
Kitty Lester / kitty@childhoodpr.co.uk / 07727 179 464
ABOUT WAR CHILD
War Child UK is the only specialist charity for children affected by conflict. War Child creates safe spaces for children to play, learn and access psychological support. Its aim is to reach children as early as possible when conflict breaks out and stay to support them through their recovery – keeping them safe, helping them learn and cope with their experiences, and equipping them with skills for the future.
War Child understands children’s needs, respects their rights, and puts them at the centre of the solution and campaigns for changes to policies and practices to support children in conflict, working with children and young people themselves to demand their rights. It also specialises in responding rapidly to emergency crisis situations as-they-happen, to offer immediate and critical aid to keep children safe and help them through their trauma. Together with its partners War Child UK delivers vital, life-saving work in six countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. In 2022 War Child supported 256,000 children and adults, and money raised from Secret 7” will help bolster that figure. www.warchild.org.uk | Registered charity number: 1071659
ABOUT NOW GALLERY
Conceived as part of the on-going regeneration of Greenwich Peninsula, NOW Gallery sits within a pavilion designed by architects Marks Barfield, moments from The O2 and North Greenwich station. One of the original buildings created by Knight Dragon, it is a public exhibition space for contemporary art, fashion, photography and design, with an ever-revolving programme of free to attend work from established and emerging artists, designers and other creative practitioners. Providing a place for investigation, NOW Gallery is a space for creatives to develop ideas and unprecedented artwork. It plays an important role of connecting to the locality via introducing interactive pieces of work that invite the public in to engage, contemplate and return, forming a relationship with the surrounding area and helping to shape the Greenwich Peninsula community.
ABOUT GREENWICH PENINSULA
Greenwich Peninsula is fast becoming the capital’s most boldly modern landscape. With 17,487 new homes, 12,000 new jobs and 48 acres of open public space emerging over the coming years. Here a community of thousands of pioneers live in new riverside homes, work in a cutting-edge Design District and enjoy the Tide, the neighbourhood’s elevated, riverside walkway and public art trail that celebrates art, design and wellbeing - all wrapped by the river Thames. This is new London: a destination for modern urban living.
ABOUT PEGGY
Peggy is the social marketplace for discovering, buying and selling contemporary art. Peggy provides essential technology for contemporary art, expanding the opportunity for more people to build and grow an art collection. The Peggy-designed Digital Fingerprint uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to create a unique identity for paintings, enabling transaction security, provenance transparency and artist royalties on primary and secondary sales. Peggy is trusted by artists who have shown at the Venice Biennale, Centre Pompidou, MOCA Geffen, and Louvre Abu Dhabi. Peggy is the secure way into the world of art. For more information, visit www.peggy.com.
