LONDON - eTradeWire -- An Artist's Proof of Mid-Air (2026), by London-based Transylvanian-British surrealist artist Cristina Schek, is being offered in Centenary Action's online charity auction, supported by SYLVIA the musical. Bidding closes on Sunday 15 November 2026.

The artwork connects two women artists, Sylvia Pankhurst and Cristina Schek, across more than a century of suffragette history, with a remarkable link to the Royal Albert Hall.

On 29 April 1909, the first Holloway Prison brooches, designed by Sylvia Pankhurst, were presented to formerly imprisoned suffragettes at a Women's Social and Political Union meeting at the Royal Albert Hall.

More than a century later, two Holloway brooches appear in Schek's Mid-Air, transformed into symbolic prison gates. Between them, a woman balances on a wire, suspended between confinement and freedom.

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The artwork was created as a companion to Schek's first museum-scale mixed-media installation, Her Court, presented during the Young Masters exhibition Her Court: The Role Wimbledon Played in the Suffragette Movement at Wimbledon Museum in July 2026.

Following the exhibition, Dr Helen Pankhurst CBE, Sylvia Pankhurst's granddaughter, selected Schek's Mid-Air for a Centenary Action card sent to every woman MP in the House of Commons. On 26 August 2026, Schek joined Dr Pankhurst and the Centenary Action team to sign the cards before their journey to Westminster.

Reflecting on the artwork, Schek explains:
"The two Holloway Brooches become a pair of prison gates. But she is not locked in. She is walking the line between them, which is a dangerous thing to do and therefore exactly the sort of thing women have often had to do. Somehow, in the middle of it all, she rises."

In another remarkable historical connection, SYLVIA the musical comes to the Royal Albert Hall, returning Sylvia Pankhurst's story to the very venue where her brooches were first presented 117 years earlier.

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The musical also supports Centenary Action's charity auction, which is raising funds for its campaign for a gender-equal UK Parliament by 2028, the centenary of equal voting rights for women and men.

Schek has specially released one Artist's Proof of Mid-Air for the auction. Artwork courtesy of Cynthia Corbett Gallery / Young Masters Art Prize.

Auction closes: Sunday 15 November 2026, 9:45pm

VIEW THE ARTWORK AND PLACE YOUR BID
https://centenaryaction.co.uk/auction/items/1000113674

DISCOVER THE FULL STORY BEHIND MID-AIR
https://www.cristinaschek.co.uk/mid-air-scully-effect-pankhurst-centenary-action

About Cristina Schek

Cristina Schek is a London-based Transylvanian-British surrealist artist working across photography, digital montage, installation and public art, exploring identity, imagination and transformation.