The artists include Turner Prize winners such as Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, and Anish Kapoor, as well as Jenny Saville, Tacita Dean, and the Chapman Brothers. The resulting objects—relic-like sculptures, photographs, drawings—will be auctioned off March 8 in a sale titled Ash to Art. Proceeds will be donated to the Mackintosh Campus Appeal. “It places the future of the School firmly in the hands of the UK’s creative community,” said a statement from Bill Hartley and Giles Hepworth, who devised the campaign at J. Walter Thompson, the international agency.

Each artist was sent a piece of debris from the destroyed library, a description, and a request for an art object. Many of the resulting works are like liturgical objects or reliquaries. Douglas Gordon cast fragments of wood into a bronze cross. Kapoor, meanwhile, enclosed his cinders in a red acrylic box.

Grayson Perry said he is frequently asked to create charity works, with requests ranging from coffee mugs to underpants. But the Turner Prize recipient was intrigued and made an urn to house the library’s ashes, which, according to the artist, “was the obvious thing to do.”