Cure 3 2023: Bonhams, London

Over 90 international artists were commissioned for Cure³ 2023 to make a unique work, either within the now familiar Perspex CUBE or a bespoke SQUARE of the same core dimensions (20cm). For this 4^th edition of Cure³ we were also delighted to introduce a specially commissioned selection of NFT works that, along with the CUBES and SQUARES, were be exhibited and sold to raise money and help find a cure for Parkinson's.

Since 2017 Cure³ has raised over 1 million pounds for CP and has swiftly become an eagerly anticipated highlight on the international artworld calendar. Under the careful curation of Susie Allen and Laura Culpan from Artwise, it has established itself as a fundraising contemporary art project with a worldwide reputation for quality and inventiveness. 

CP was co-founded in 2005 by Tom Isaacs and three other people living with Parkinson's, it is a charity created by and for people living with Parkinson's. CP has one bold aim: to find a cure for Parkinson's. CP funds and supports pioneering research into new treatments which offer the hope of a cure to the more than 10 million people living with the condition worldwide.

Tom lived an inspirational life with Parkinson's, devoted to the cause of CP. He was passionate about the Cure³ project from the beginning, and it was Tom's description of living with Parkinson's as feeling like being 'boxed in' that inspired Artwise with the concept from which Cure³ was born.

Fiona Grady's artwork for Cure³ Converging Triangles is a meeting of transparent perspex triangles that offer a three dimensional interpretation of her window installations. The double structure of triangles sit on a mirrored base that allow the suggestion of an extended space above and below the core of the cube. Creating an illusion that the shapes exist beyond the physical planes of the cube and highlighting there is more to the work than initially meets the eye.