The iconic Secret 7″ Art exhibition is back for 2025 featuring 700 unique artist-designed sleeves, now on display at NOW Gallery, Greenwich Peninsula, 11 April -1 June 2025
Online auction until 1 June 2025
The specialist charity for children caught in conflict, War Child UK includes iconic talents creating new records for Secret 7” 2025
The Cure, Frank Turner, Gregory Porter, Jessie Ware, Keane, Scissor Sisters, and Sophie Ellis-Bextor have all offered a track each for the creation of 700 unique record sleeves for the return of the legendary charity auction Secret 7” in aid of War ChildUK, the specialist charity for children caught in conflict. Thousands of artists have submitted artworks, with 700 unique, one-off record sleeve designs selected for the anonymous auction, which opens at NOW Gallery, Greenwich Peninsula from 11 April –1 June in a free public art exhibition. The records will be available for auction until 1 June 2025. Details on how to bid can be found at secret-7.co.uk. Each record has a unique sleeve design inspired by the tracks put forward by this year’s musicians. Artists creating designs include fashion designer Sir Paul Smith, Turner Prize-winning sculptor Antony Gormley OBE RA, the artist behind every Radiohead album cover Stanley Donwood, interdisciplinary artist Rana Begum, Haroon Mirza, Anthony Burrill, Yooyun Yang, The Cure frontman Robert Smith, BBC Radio 1 Rock Showhost Daniel P Carter, Andrew Pierre Hart, Future Awards Africa-winner Ken Nwadiogbu, Vicken Parsons and Giles Deacon among many others.
Below are some of our favourite entries from the exhibition…
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