Sir Grayson Perry, John Keane, Ken Loach, Mark Bonnar and Shazia Mirza are among celebrities joining forces with British Red Cross to back its Postcards for Syria project to mark five years of the humanitarian crisis, by producing postcard artworks, poems or messages, which will be auctioned to support the British Red Cross Syria Crisis Appeal.

Ted Tuthill, head of British Red Cross Middle East and North Africa, commented 'The conflict in Syria has raged for five long years, bringing intolerable suffering to the lives of millions of people. Postcards for Syria provides a way for people to respond to this devastating humanitarian crisis in a more personal form'.