AKA Peace

The AK-47 was one of the first assault rifles and developed by the end of WWII. So have 23 artists used these weapons to help world peace with Peace One Day? By auctioning them off of course! On the 4th October each one of the specially commissioned rifles were auctioned off at Phillips de Pury & Co, raising over £471,000.

The 23 artists involved:
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Damien Hirst
Antony Gormley
Sam Taylor Wood
Gavin Turk
Solange Azagury-Partridge
Rebecca Warren
Stuart Semple
Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Douglas Gordon
Jeremy Deller
Marc Quinn
Ryan Gander
Jim Lambie
Langlands & Bell
Mat Collishaw
Harland Miller
Bran Symondson
Sarah Lucas
Charming Baker
Antony Micallef
Nancy Fouts
Laila Shawa