press release

summer exhibition . jul 14 – aug 5 . 2007

for Callum Robbins

96 Gillespie is pleased to announce our Summer Exhibition for 2007.

Our annual Summer Exhibition is intended to provide an informal introduction to the gallery and our mission as well as our upcomin schedule. This summer’s exhibition is dedicated to & in benefit of 18 month old Baltimore resident Cal Robbins.
All proceeds from the sale of artwork will be donated to Cal and includes work from Gee Vaucher, Glen E Friedman, Cynthia Connolly, Jamie Reid, Jeremy and Claire Weiss, KT Tunstall, Rich Jacobs, Sexton Ming, Tim Kerr, Harrison Haynes, Pat Graham, and many more.

Cal was born with a genetic motor neuron disease called Type 1 SMA, or Spinal Muscular Atrophy. The facts are brutal: SMA kills kids.The disease affects the brain’s ability to communicate with the voluntary muscles that are used for activities such as crawling, walking, head and neck control, breathing, and swallowing. Type 1 SMA is usually fatal; *most Type 1 babies will die before their second birthday*. Those infants who survive into childhood are in for a long road of occupational therapy, wheelchairs, and assistive devices. Despite years of work on its treatment and ‘ongoing promising research’, it has no cure.

This exhibition is part of a wider range of fundraising activities to help provide Cal with assistive devices & therapies that his parents could not otherwise afford. We hope to help them give him every opportunity for comfort & development.

Location: 96 Gillespie road, London N5 1LN
Opening hours: Th-Su 2-6pm. or by appointment
Phone: 0207 503 3496
Admission: Free
http: www.96gillespie.com
Tube: Arsenal (Piccadilly Line)
Bus Routes: 19, 4, 106, 236
www.96gillespie.com