Artists create works from Glasgow School of Art ashes for fundraising auction

After a devastating fire in 2014 destroyed the historic Glasgow School of Art building designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the city has decided to rebuild but lacks sufficient funds. In response, artists including Grayson Perry, Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Douglas Gordon, Cornelia Parker, the Chapman brothers, Peter Blake, and Simon Sterling have created artworks using the building's ashes and debris for a fundraising auction. Perry made a ceramic urn inscribed "Art is dead, long live art"; Gordon crafted a bronze cross; Kapoor produced a red plexiglass box filled with charred wood fragments. Each artist was given free rein to work with the debris. Christie's will auction all works in March 2018. If successful, the school aims to reopen in spring 2019.