Auction house Sotheby's recently held a charity art auction, raising an incredible £1.9 million for the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire, double what they predicted they would raise. Items contributed to the auction included works from Tracey Emin, Wolfgang Tillmans, Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor. Of the 31 items up for auction, Tracy Emin's neon Loving You More (2015) piece raised the highest figure of £135,000.

Film producer Hamish McAlpine and arts consultant Katie Heller, who organised the auction, personally reached out to each of the artists for donations in the aftermath of the tragedy. Sotheby's waived their usual fees for the auction so that as much of the proceedings as possible could go to the survivors of the fire. Money raised from the auction will be divided by the charity Rugby Portobello Trust.

Alpine and Heller commented: "No one should have had to suffer the trauma that these people have endured. It is only right that we should do all we can to help in any way that we can and the artists have responded with immense generosity and goodwill."