Election Gala Dinner

Auction guide
Courtesy the
Artist and Victoria
Miro, London
Grayson Perry.
Photography:
Stephen White
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Investing to Win in 2015
We have a simple shared aim: to ensure this is a one
term opposition, and that we secure an overall victory
in May 2015. By bidding in tonights auction, you will
be directly helping us achieve that.
How you can help
By bidding in tonights live and silent auction or taking part in this evenings pledge
ask you will be supporting the projects listed above, helping to deliver a Labour
majority in 2015.
What you will be supporting through bidding:

1. Campaigners on the ground
Thanks to the generosity of members and supporters, we have made an unprecedented
investment in our trainee organiser programme during this electoral cycle. We now have
over 100 trained, full-time campaign organisers on the ground in our key seats more
than weve ever had in any previous electoral cycle in fact, more organisers per head
of the population than Obama had. We know (and we have the evidence to prove it), that
these individuals are key to delivering the swing away from the Tories and Lib Dems, and to
Labour, that we need to win.

2. The e-election: Digital messaging, campaigning and fundraising
Messaging There are hundreds of thousands of voters that we need to win over to Labour
who we struggle to reach through traditional media channels. Many potential voters have
turned of and tuned out: theyve stopped buying newspapers or watching the news. There
is one efective way to connect with these people: through their friends and family via
social media platforms like Facebook. Two-thirds of the UK electorate is on Facebook. It is a
powerful communications tool precisely because it is personal, driven by networks of family,
friends and acquaintances.
Campaigning We recruited 8,202 new supporters to become ofine volunteers.
These are the people who our Campaign Organisers deploy on the streets to knock
on doors, identify the vote, and deliver them on polling day.
Fundraising - In 2013, our online fundraising total was ve times higher than the previous
year. We are on target to continue this trajectory of success.

3. Polling
Knowing our voters is key to winning a majority. Polling will be tasked with identifying the
winnable and vulnerable voters. How old are they? What is their income level? Did they vote
in 2010. Who are they voting for now? The rise of UKIP and the decline of the Lib Dems have
fundamentally changed the landscape our polling/targeting programme will tell us how.
Once we know who our target voters are, we need to identify the issues that concern them,
what are the credible solutions that they can believe in this will drive a strong national
message. We will then be able to personalise Labours message to individual households and
voters using our campaign organisers on the ground and digital messaging.
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Statement on Donations to the Labour Party
All donations worth more than 500 made to the Labour Party are
regulated by the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.
All donors to the Labour Party must be:
individuals on a current register of electors in the UK, or companies
incorporated in the EU and registered and trading in the UK, or
a limited liability partnership carrying out business in the UK, or
a trade union or registered political party, or
a registered building or friendly society, or
an unincorporated association carrying out activities in the UK
Individuals or organisations who donate more than 7,500 to the
national Labour Party in a calendar year will have their name and the
amount published on the Electoral Commissions website. Addresses
of individuals will not be published.
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Live auction
The Labour Party is delighted to be able ofer unique
and wonderful art and experiences in our Gala Dinner
Live Auction.
SMALL TURN III (2013)
Antony Gormley
Cast iron
106 x 18 x 19.5 cm
Reserve: 100,000
We are delighted to ofer Antony Gormleys stunning SMALL TURN III. In a career spanning
nearly 40 years Gormley has received countless awards for his work, including the Turner
Prize in 1994, the Obayashi Prize in 2012 and the Praemium Imperiale in 2013. Gormley
was knighted in the 2014 New Years Honours list for services to the arts.
Of his Blockworks series, of which SMALL TURN III forms part, Gormley says:
..Blockworks describe the space of the body in stacked masses that question its stability.
I use the construction language of the built world, pillars and lintels, to evoke the inner
condition of the body, treating the body less as a thing than a place. There is a tension
between a suggested symmetry and the actual articulation of a body, so that very slight
variations in the alignment of the blocks can be read empathetically as an indication of the
total body feeling. These pieces attempt to treat the body as a condition: being, not doing.
Antony Gormley
SMALL TURN III,
2013
the artist
Photograph by
Stephen White,
London
We have amazing artwork from Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Grayson Perry,
Mark Wallinger and Nicola Green along with an exciting opportunity for you and a
chosen team to go head to head with a Shadow Cabinet Five-A-Side All Stars football
team which includes, Ed Balls, Andy Burnham, Sadiq Khan, and Jim Murphy.
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Live auction
Untitled (2013)
Anish Kapoor
Gouache on paper, Float mounted inside a window mount 8ply
89cm x 75.5cm
Reserve: 25,000
Anish Kapoor is one of the most inuential sculptors of his generation. Born in 1954
in Bombay, he has lived in London since the early 1970s. Over the past thirty years he
has exhibited extensively. He won the Turner Prize in 1991 and received the prestigious
Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in 2002. In 2006 he was
commissioned by the Public Arts Fund to create a work to be exhibited outside the
Rockefeller Centre, New York. In 2011 Kapoor was selected to exhibit for Monumenta,
at the Grand Palais, organised by the French Ministry for Culture and Communication
and in 2013 Ark Nova the worlds rst inatable concert hall was launched for the Lucerne
Festival in Matsushima, Japan. In 2012 Orbit, a commission for the London Olympic Park
was completed.
Anish Kapoor was awarded Honorary Fellowships by the London Institute and Leeds
University (1997), university of Wolverhampton (1999) and the Royal Institute of British
Architects (2001). He was elected Royal Academician in 1999 and in 2003 was awarded
a CBE. In 2011 he was awarded the Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters and the
Premium Imperiale. In 2012 he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, and was knighted in the
Queens Birthday Honours in Summer 2013.
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Labour Lion (2014)
Grayson Perry
Ceramic
40 x 27 x 13 cm
Reserve: 15,000
Grayson Perry, winner of the 2003 Turner Prize, uses the seductive qualities of ceramics
and other art forms to make stealthy comments about societal injustices and hypocrisies,
and to explore a variety of historical and contemporary themes. The beauty of his work
is what draws us close. Covered with scrafto drawings, handwritten and stencilled texts,
photographic transfers and rich glazes, Perrys detailed pots are deeply alluring. Only when
we are up close do we start to absorb narratives that might allude to dark subjects such
as environmental disaster or child abuse, and even then the narrative ow can be hard to
discern.
Born in Chelmsford, Essex in 1960, Grayson Perry lives and works in London. Perry was
the winner of the 2003 Turner Prize, and has had major solo exhibitions, most recently
at The British Museum (2011). In 2012 Perry created a series of six new tapestries entitled
The Vanity of Small Diferences on display at Victoria Miro gallery. The making of these
tapestries was chronicled in a 3-part documentary on Channel 4 exploring taste and class
within the UK. All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry was broadcast in June
2012 and won a BAFTA for Best Specialist Factual Programme in 2013. In June 2013 Perry
was awarded a CBE in the Queens Birthday Honours List.
This beautiful ceramic Labour Lion was produced specially for Labours Election Gala
Dinner 2014 and is a one of a kind item.
Courtesy the
Artist and Victoria
Miro, London
Grayson Perry.
Photography:
Stephen White
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Live auction
Mark Wallinger
The White Horse (2011)
Polyester resin and chalk powder
Edition of 30
19.2 x 26.8 x 6.3cm
Reserve: 12,000
Artist Mark Wallinger has been twice nominated for the Turner Prize, once in 1995 and
again in 2007,when he won. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2001.
His recent exhibitions include State Britain (Tate 2007), The Russian Linesman (Hayward
Gallery 2009) Site at the Baltic Gateshead (2012), Metamorphosis, an Olympic commission
for the Royal Ballet and the National Gallery (2012), and Labyrinth (2013), the largest
commission to a single artist ever awarded for a work for every underground station to
celebrate the 150th anniversary of the tube.
The White Horse is an editioned maquette of both a life size sculpture and proposed
50 meter high sculpture for Ebbseet, Kent. Wallinger has, for many years, explored the
history of the horse and its links to man.
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Struggle, Red (2014)
Nicola Green
Reserve: 6,000
Silkscreen Print
132cm x 101.5cm
A unique work specially created for, and donated to, the Labour Party Struggle, Red A/P
(2014) from Nicola Greens series In Seven Days. Telling the story of Nicola Greens
experience inside Obamas 2008 presidential campaign, the seven iconic prints from
In Seven Days have been exhibited and bought by galleries across the United States and
Europe including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Library of Congress. Own a
piece of history in this exquisite original, one-of silkscreen print Struggle, Red which
features a hand-painted 24 carat gold hand and comes in a bespoke frame by eminent
London framing company John Jones.
This hand represents the efort, value and strength that over the years have gone into
struggles all over the world. The Labour Party has been involved in many of these, from
womans rights to the anti-apartheid movement. This image is from a sketch of Barack
Obamas hand which I drew on a rainy night in a New Hampshire gym at a rally in 2008.
At this time victory seemed very far away, the efort to get to this point and the struggle
ahead felt overwhelming. I kept thinking about how each of us has to nd our own power
through our identity. This image is about the value and strength in that struggle.
Nicola Green
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Five-A-Side Football Match against the Shadow Cabinet All Stars
Reserve 2,500
Whether you love football or just like the idea of trying to kick members of the Shadow
Cabinet, this prize for you! You and your family, friends or colleagues will go head-
to-head with the Shadow Cabinet All Stars Five-A-Side team, including Ed Balls, Andy
Burnham, Sadiq Khan, and Jim Murphy, on the hallowed 4G turf of the Lucozade
Powerleague, Shoreditch.
So if you think you have the touch of a Cruyf, the air of a Pele, or the bite of a Suarez,
then this is your chance to demonstrate to the Shadow Cabinet your footballing prowess.
A prize, like the Powerleague goals, not to be missed!
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Silent auction
Unique Unmissable Experiences
Founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales to visit your school
An amazing opportunity to hear internet legend Jimmy
Wales, founder of Wikipedia, come and talk at your childs
school, or a school of your nomination. The winning
school will be treated to a rst-hand account of Wikipedias
creation and how learning has changed in the internet
age. There will also be a question and answer session at
the end, where pupils can have a chance to quiz Jimmy
personally.
The prize can take place anywhere within two hours of
London by train. The date for the prize will be set with the
prize donor following the event.
Reserve price: 1000
Sir Patrick Stewart to record your answerphone message
Is your answerphone message the same boring old leave
your message after the tone? Well this is the chance for
you to have a message that everyone will want to hear, as
Sir Patrick Stewart records a unique one-of answerphone
message in his unmistakable voice for you. Sir Patrick
Stewart OBE is a hero of stage and screen, famous as much
for his Shakespearean soliloquise as well as for his lead
roles as Professor X in X-Men and Captain Jean-Luc Picard
in Start Trek.
Reserve price: 1000
At home with Ian Bostridge
An exclusive invitation from Ian Bostridge, one of Britains
most acclaimed tenors, to be his guest at a very special
performance at his house in London. This will be a truly
unique experience for you and a plus one. As well as having
the chance to see Ian sing in an intimate setting with a
select audience of his family and friends, the winner and
their guest will get the chance to meet him and stay for
dinner.
The date for the prize will be set by Ian for some time in the
autumn following the event.
Reserve price: 750
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Kitchen experience in Michael Caines 2 Michelin star
kitchen + lunch
Fancy trying your hand at some cooking some two-star
Michelin Cuisine? We have an amazing opportunity
to test your culinary skills and then eat in Michael Caines
excellent 2 Star Michelin restaurant, Gidleigh Park,
in Devon. You will observe lunch preparation and
experience the excitement of a busy lunch rst hand. After
service you will be treated to a three-course lunch menu
with wines chosen by the sommelier.
Reserve price: 750
Have your portrait painted by David Newens
With a career spanning more than 20 years, David Newens
is a hugely respected and established portrait artist, with
works for seven Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions and
12 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibitions.
Davids skilful hand and great attention to detail will create
a unique gift, whether it be a portrait of yourself or perhaps
the perfect commission of someone special.
Reserve price: 1000
Lunch with Jack Straw
Enjoy a lunch for two with former Home Secretary,
Foreign Secretary, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State
for Justice, Jack Straw. This is an opportunity for you to
converse with one of Britains leading politicians and one
of the Labour Partys greatest servants.
Reserve price: 350
Tea at the National Gallery with Tristram Hunt MP
followed by a walking tour on the British empire
Join Tristram Hunt for a special tea for two at the National
Gallery, followed by a specially curated tour focusing on
the British Empire.You will also receive a special triple
pack of editions of critically acclaimed books by Tristram:
Ten Cities that Made an Empire, Building Jerusalem, and
The Frock-Coasted Communist.
Reserve price: 350
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A week long stay in a Tuscan villa for 9
Enjoy a week long stay in a stunning 16th Century newly
restored Tuscan villa situated on the stunning Tuscany/
Umbria border, the villa sleeps 9 people and is only a
fty minute drive from Perugia Airport. This has been
generously donated by Rod McNeill with days of stay to
be agreed.
Reserve price: 2000
A week in beautiful West Coast Scotland
A week in a luxury apartment on the west coast of
Scotland. Situated in the beautiful village of Tarbert on the
bank of Loch Fyne you will stay in Quay House a luxury
apartment in an area full of amazing scenery, wildlife, pubs
and restaurants.
Reserve price: 500
A cut and nish with a Master Stylist including
champagne at Charles Worthington
Is your hair in need of a new lease of life or a cut and blow
dry? Then this is opportunity for you, you will be attended
to by a Master Stylist and treated to champagne at the
brilliant Charles Worthingtons salon in central London.
Reserve price: 250
Tasting menu for 6 at the Red Fort in Soho
Celebrity favourite, The Red Fort celebrating its 30th
Anniversary this year, will welcome you and your friends
or family to enjoy its renowned Mughal Court cooking
combining the best British produce with the avours of
the Sub-Continent to create dishes that will excite all your
taste buds.
Reserve price: 350
Dinner for 4 at LEscargot
We are delighted to ofer a fantastic dinner for four
at legendary restaurant, LEscargot, known as the rst
restaurant in Great Britain to serve fresh snails. LEscargot
is one of Londons leading dining destinations, with
astounding art adorning the walls and an electric
atmosphere. Spoil yourself and your friends and bid now.
Reserve price: 250
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Music and Sport
Season ticket for Rosenblatt Recitals 2014 2015 season
for two
Described as Londons only world-class concert season
of opera and song this is a fantastic opportunity for two
to enjoy a season of fantastic opera.
Reserve price: 200
VIP evening at the legendary Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club in
London
An invitation for you and four guests to be treated to
a VIP evening at the legendary Ronnie Scotts Jazz
Club in London, one of the greatest and most historic
jazz clubs in the world, ofering the very best in live
jazz music. You and your guests will be allocated the
best seats in the house, enjoy a glass of champagne
on arrival, followed by a three-course meal with wine.
Kindly donated by: Ronnie Scotts and Sally Greene OBE.
Reserve price: 500
Two VIP tickets to the opening night of Rossinis William
Tell on the 12th September.
This will include a pre-reception with the Director, interval
drinks, post reception with the Cast, and a stay at a ve star
hotel. An amazing gift for opera lovers at the opening night
of William Tell at the Wales Millenium Centre in Cardif.
Reserve price: 250
Opera singing lessons
If youve ever fancied yourself as the next Luciano Pavarotti
or Joan Sutherland then this is your chance with this
unique gift of three Opera singing lessons with one of
Britains leading mezzo-sopranos Anne-Marie Owens.
Reserve price: 500
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Music and Sport
Framed Man Utd shirt signed by the entire 2013/14 First
Team Squad
Your chance to grab a piece of footballing history with
this signed rst team shirt from the 2013/14 Premier
League season. Framed and accompanied by provenance
authentication.
Reserve price: 250
Ronaldo signed Man U shirt
A signed Man Utd shirt by current world footballer of the
year Cristiano Ronaldo. Donated by Manchester United.
Reserve price: 500
Swinley Forest Golf Course match for 3
Ranked as one of the best golf courses in the country and
set in the beautiful surroundings of Swinley Forest this is
a chance for 3 people to enjoy a round of golf at Swinley
Forest Golf Course followed by lunch.
Reserve price: 250
Two Centre Court tickets
For tennis lovers this is a fantastic opportunity
to get two Centre Court tickets and a luxury
lunch hamper for the Aegon June 2016 Queens
Club, Pre Wimbledon, Tennis Championship.
Kindly donated by Alison Downie and David Ofenbach.
Reserve price: 200
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Political Memorabilia
Signed 1997 manifesto
A signed Labour Party Manifesto from 1997, the signatories
are Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson and David Miliband.
Reserve price: 2000
Signed Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013
A signed copy of the Marriage Act 2013 which made
legal same sex marriages in England and Wales.
The act is signed by Ed Miliband, Angela Eagle, Yvette
Cooper and by the Shadow Equalities team who were
so pivotal in getting the legislation through Parliament.
Reserve price: 500
Unique 100th Anniversay Signed Photo
A unique photograph commemorating the 100th
Anniversary of the inaugural meeting of the Parliamentary
Labour Party, taken in the Commons Chamber on 8th
February 2006. The photo has over 190 original signatures
of members including Tony Blair (Prime Minister),
Gordon Brown (Chancellor) and John Prescott (Deputy
Prime Minister).The picture also has on the reverse
a comprehensive index of all the Members and their
constituencies.
Reserve price: 500
Signed Foreword from the National Trade Union and
Labour Party Liaison Committee
This foreword has been signed by, Jim Callaghan, Michael
Foot, Neil Kinnock, Margaret Beckett, Tony Blair, John
Prescott, Bill Morris and John Mann.
Reserve price: 2000
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Political Memorabilia
Signed collection of Labour Political memoirs and books
A fantastic collection of books and memoris for avid
readers and followers of British politics. The set includes;
This Boy by Alan Johnson, Last Man Standing by Jack
Straw, Irish Diaries by Alastair Campbell, and The 10
Football Matches That Changed the World ... and the
One That Didnt by Jim Murphy.
Reserve price: 100
Signed Tony Benn Poster
A signed Tony Benn poster donated by Hilary Benn MP.
Reserve price: 250

Signed bottle of Whisky
Your chance to own a piece of Labour History.Bid today
to win a bottle of whisky signed by ve Labour leaders;
Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown,
and Ed Miliband.Donated by Labour Coast & Country.
Reserve price: 1500
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Silent Auction Bidding
There are two ways to bid for our fantastic array of silent auction prizes, using one of
the iPads on your table or by downloading the BidTech app and using your phone.
Instructions on how to use the iPads are below, while instructions on how to use your
mobile phone are on cards on your table.
If you do need any help with bidding please ask a member of Labour Party staf or a
member of the BidTech team who will be circulating throughout the dinner.
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Many thanks to the
following for their
support of the auction
Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP
Ian Bostridge CBE
Michael Caines MBE
Alison Downie
Clive Elliott
Nicola Green
Sally Greene OBE
John Hayes
Labour Students
LEscargot
Manchester United F.C.
Rod McNeil
David Mills
David Newens
David Ofenbach
Ann-Marie Owens
Red Fort Restaurant
John Reid
Sir Patrick Stewart OBE
Rt Hon Jack Straw MP
Jimmy Wales
Mark Wallinger
Charles Worthington and Allan Peters
With particular thanks to:
Sir Antony Gormley OBE RA
Sir Anish Kapoor CBE
Grayson Perry CBE RA
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McNicol, General Secretary, the Labour Party, on behalf of the
Labour Party, both at One Brewers Green, London SW1H 0RH.
Struggle, Red (2014)
Nicola Green