Art on a Postcard is back for a sixth year with its annual International Women’s Day Auction and an all-female identifying lineup. This year, it is joined by six guest curators, promising an event that’s both familiar and full of exciting new additions.

Money raised will go towards the innovative work The Hepatitis C Trust carries out in Women’s Prisons where much of the prison population tests positive for hepatitis C, and the majority of women affected or at risk of hepatitis C are marginalised, experience gender inequalities, and often face complex multiple needs which are poorly met.

Ceramist Mercedes Lucy, an emerging talent and studio holder at Tracey Emin’s TKE Studio, has enlisted the best of Margate’s artistic community for this year’s auction. Her lineup, which would look good at Frieze, includes some exciting contemporary artists, including Vanessa Raw and Laura Footes who have both recently had inaugural solo shows at Carl Freedman Gallery, and Sophie Von Hellerman, who depicts imagery from fables, mythology, literature, and current events and is represented by Pillar Corrias. Also joining Mercedes is the ceramist Lindsey Mendick, known for creating ‘skilled monuments to low culture’.

Contemporary artist Hannah Tilson has contributed to Art on a Postcard auctions since she was a student at The Slade, so we are delighted to have her back as a curator in 2025. Hannah’s lineup includes Elsa Rouy, who has had solo shows in London, Antwerp, and Los Angeles in the past two years; fashion designer and artist Sara Berman, who currently has her first solo show at Vielmetters in Los Angeles, and Serbian painter Maja Djordjevic, whose faux naïve paintings reference the visual style of Microsoft Paint.

Writer and editor on photography Gemma Padley has curated a fabulous selection of photographers, including Julie Cockburn, known for her distinctive embellishment of found images; Juno Calypso, whose photography captures the unsettling nature of feminine self-perception; and Alma Haser, known for detailed portrait work influenced by her background in fine art.

Juno Calypso

Curator, researcher, and art historian Marta Marsicka’s auction includes works by Hungarian Artist Zofia Schweger, South Korean artist WooSun Choi, and Chinese artist Danying Chen. All three artists focus on identity, home, and being foreign.

Finally, The Women in Art Prize is participating with its finalists, including Laura Pannack, a social documentary photographer; Mandy Racine, a contemporary painter inspired by Baroque and Rococo old masters; and Han Yang, a photographer and creative director.

Art on a Postcard features an impressive array of talent, including feminist artist Caroline Coon whose work highlights the politics surrounding sexual liberation. Printmaker, wood engraver, Royal Academician Anne Desmett, and American artist Kat Giordano, whose paintings explore societal concerns related to subtle, unacknowledged violence and feeling trapped within suburban life. Chicago-based Ashely January tackles Black maternal mortality and morbidity crisis in America through painting and multimedia. Also, from the Kristin Hjellegjerde stable Heidi Ukkon, whose paintings explore relationships, anguish, and suffering as themes. American artist Sarah Fuax focuses on the body, merging abstraction and figuration; Sarah has several solo shows under her belt, the most recent being “Sweet Bitter” at Hales Gallery in New York in 2023 and Glasgow-based Ren Yen Song, whose practice explores self-mythology as survival tactic.

This edition of Art on a Postcard is packed with talent and interesting artists, and the lots start at an affordable £50. With the economy still shrinking, Art on a Postcard wants to ensure everyone can feed their art habit and be part of this exciting event.