Unique Cube Artworks Raise Vital Funds For Parkinson’s

Cure³, the fundraising art exhibition supporting Parkinson’s runs this month from 1- 5 February 2025 at Bonhams on Bond Street in London. The fifth edition of the exhibition features original, commissioned artworks by 117 international artists including Sir Frank Bowling, Julian Opie and Mona Hatoum.

The exhibition is organised by Artwise, a curatorial practice run by Susie Allen and Laura Culpan, the duo behind team behind the original Royal College of Art Secret postcard project, Art for Your World and Tomorrow’s Tigers for World Wildlife Fund UK. All profits from Cure3 help the charity Cure Parkinson’s to fund vital curative research into Parkinson’s.

All works are available to purchase online only and at generative art platform fx(hash) for NFTs. Every time a Cure³ NFT artwork is sold in the future, a further contribution will automatically made to Cure³. Sales are open from 6pm on 3 February. Prices of the artworks range from £750 to £15,000.

The concept of Cure³ was inspired by Cure Parkinson’s late co-founder Tom Isaacs who described living with Parkinson’s as feeling like being “boxed in”, and so the artists are invited to create original artwork using a 20cm³ Perspex box (which can act as frame, plinth or container). Alternatively, since the fourth edition of the exhibition in 2023, artists can create their piece using a two-dimensional 20cm x 20cm canvas. For the generative artists, their original work is digital.

Since the first edition in 2017, Cure³ has been supported by over 214 artists and raised almost £2 million for curative research into Parkinson’s and Cure Parkinson’s. In 2017 there were 53 participating artists, a number that grew to 81 for the exhibition’s second edition in 2018, including 11 specially invited architects. Following that, for the third edition in 2020, they had 90 participants, including 10 fashion designers.

The artists in the 2025 show are incredibly creative in working within the small perspex box format. Some embellish the exterior with fabric or other materials, while others have placed a range of objects like pearls, stoneware, human hair or a bird’s nest inside. Anna Boggon’s Whitewash (£2,500) includes a tiny windup music box inside the perspex box, Diana Edmunds’ Square Dance 3 (£2,500) features a glowing red neon sculpture and Ben Johnson’s Infinity Sphere (£7,000) has a 3D sculpture with mirrors inside.

The 117 participating artists for Cure3 2025 are: Gillies Adamson Semple, Polly Apfelbaum, Ron Arad, Reza Aramesh, Laura Ellen Bacon, Michelangelo Bastiani, Olivia Bax, Antonia Beard, Rana Begum, Sara Berman, Georgia Boardman, Anna Boggon, Sir Frank Bowling, Emily Buck, Clare Burnett, James Capper, Jodie Carey, Rob and Nick Carter, Matthew Chambers, Gordon Cheung, Alex Chinneck, Richard Clegg, Sadie Clayton, Ashley Cluer, Andrew Cranston, Will Cruickshank, Isabelle D, Colin David, Helen David, Bouke de Vries, Johnny Dewe Mathews, Egon Digon, Tessa Eastman, Zachary Eastwood-Bloom, Diana Edmunds, Liz Elton, Jack Evans, Tessa Farmer, James Fisher, Laura Ford, Tim Garwood, Jaime Gili, Margarita Gluzberg, Lothar Götz, Catherine Goodman, Fiona Grady, Mona Hatoum, Elena Hoskyns- Abrahall, Des Hughes, David Humphrey, Emily Hunt, Merlin James, Vanessa Jackson, Ben Johnson, Idris Khan, Jan Köchermann, Debbie Lawson, Christopher Le Brun, Jennifer Lee, Sophia Loeb, Andrew Logan, Susie MacMurray, Elizabeth Magill, John Maine, Carolina Mazzolari, Stacie McCormick, Peter McDonald, Jock McFadyen, Andrew McIntosh, Bruce McLean, Beatriz Morales, Polly Morgan, Mariko Mori, Annie Morris, Emily Motto, Abe Odedina, Kemi Onabulé, Julian Opie, Gill Ord, Angela Palmer, Vicken Parsons, Julian Perry, Saad Qureshi, Nathaniel Rackowe, Jessica Rankin, Zara Ramsay, Merete Rasmussen, John Robertson, Danny Rolph, Gideon Rubin, Andrew Sabin, Rebecca Salter, George Shaw, Conrad Shawcross, Amy Stephens, Holly Stevenson, Sophie Smallhorn, Dillwyn Smith, Deborah Tchoudjinoff, Jake Tilson, Troika, Gavin Turk, Nicola Turner, Charlotte Verity, Daphne Wright, Ying Sheng Yang. Artists creating generative works to be sold as NFTs are: Emily Edelman, Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn, Licia He, Aleksandra Jovanić, Kitel, Jacek Markusiewicz, Piter Pasma, Nat Sarkissian, Marcelo Soria- Rodriguez, Bjørn Staal and Florian Zumbrunn.

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