Elephant Parade Singapore Grand Auction

The hugely popular Elephant Parade Singapore is nearing it's end. All 162 elephants will be on view at the Botanical Gardens from 8th-11th January.
The Grand Auction will be spread across 3 sessions on Thursday 12th and Saturday 14th January

My elephant 'Love Song' is lot number 98 in the final auction at 4.30-7.30pm at The Fullerton Hotel Singapore.

If you would like to attend the Auction or bid on an elephant there is more information on the website at http://http://elephantparade.com/cities/singapore-2011/auction

Elephant Parade Singapore is raising money to save the endangered Asian Elephant and help preserve it's natural habitat. To date they have donated more than 4 million euros to this cause, mainly supporting the Elephant Family's project and others .

http://http://www.elephantfamily.org/

Love Song at Singapore Zoo

Thanks to Elephant Parade Singapore for these lovely pics of Love Song at Singapore Zoo!

I also spotted lots of mini Love Songs's amongst the herd at the Elephant Parade shop at Tangs Department Store!

Good luck to Elephant Parade Milan with their auction this week.

Elephant Parade Singapore launched today

The Elephant Parade Singapore went public today when 162 stunning elephants arrived on the streets of the city. They will be on display for 2 months before being auctioned by Sotheby's in January 2012 to raise money for Asian Elephant conservation projects.

All 162 elephants will be brought together for a spectacular goodbye event at the Singapore Botanical Gardens 8th-11th January. For the latest news updates go to:

http://www.facebook.com/elephantparadefan

I'm very honoured that my elephant 'Love Song' has been sponsored by one of the parade's charity patron's BLES. The Boon Lott's Elephant Sanctuary, is an inspirational project in Thailand, founded by a remarkable young British woman Katherine Conner who set up the sanctuary in 2005 in memory of a courageous baby elephant Boon Lott.

http://www.blesele.org/

'Love Song' will be on display at Singapore Zoo, which I'm really delighted about!

http://www.zoo.com.sg/

'Love Song' for the Singapore Elephant Parade, work in progress.

My latest elephant 'Love Song' had to share the studio with my gorilla 'Blackbeard Silverback' for a couple of weeks in the summer, who has now happily found a wonderful new home after the 'Wow Gorillas' Auction recently which raised a massive total of £427,000. A huge thank you to the lovely family who so generously donated £10,000 to buy him, which goes to support two charities, Gorilla conservation and 'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal'.

The Singapore Elephant Parade goes out in public in a couple of weeks. Here are some photos of the work in progress. I chose to use mainly Asian birds in the design to highlight the need to conserve the Asian habitat to help save Asian Elephants, but couldn't resist including a few of the tropical African birds they also have at the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore...like the Lovebirds who inspired the name of my elephant!

http://elephantparade.com/cities/singapore-2011

Blackbeard Silverback to follow in Roselephant's footsteps

Today I gave 'Blackbeard Silverback' a wash and brush up before he follows in Roselephant's footsteps to visit London. He'll be going with some of his friends to spend the week near Tower Bridge and City Hall on the Southbank from 16th- 22nd Sept.http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/popular-gorilla-army-descends-on-london

All 61 gorillas will then be displayed at Bristol Zoo from 24th-28th Sept before they are auctioned on 29th Sept. http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/goodbye-gorillas

Money raised at the auction will go to support vital gorilla conservation work and local charity 'Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal'.

If you missed David Attenborough's fantastic programme 'Gorillas Revisted a few days ago, catch it on iplayer ....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074sfp/Gorillas_Revisited_with_Sir_David_Attenborough/

Elephant Parade is going to Singapore

The Elephant Parade is now heading to Singapore!

100 individually designed elephants will adorn the streets of the Lion City from 11/11/11. They will be auctioned in January 2012 by Sotheby's to raise money in aid of the Asian Elephant Conservation projects throughout Asia.This will be the 9th Elephant parade worldwide which has seen well over 500 elephants painted, sculpted or decorated by hundreds of artists,designers and celebrities.

I was so excited having finished my elephant for the Copenhagen Parade earlier this year to be asked to design one for Singapore. I took my inspiration from the Jurong Bird Park, which is dedicated to conservation and the largest bird park in the world.

My elephant is called 'Love Song' after the love birds on the face and to remind us that we need to love our natural world, to love elephants. It has a spiral of a huge variety of colourful birds, which represents the need to conserve a wide variety of species in the wild to help sustain the natural habitat. There are red ribbons making heart shapes, and at the top of the spiral is a legendary

phoenix to also symbolise love and good luck.

Find out more about the Elephant Parades at http://elephantparade.com/

Wow Gorillas out in Bristol

'Blackbeard Silverback' was unveiled at Arnos Vale Cemetery by children from St Phillips Marsh Nursery School, who brought along their own mini gorilla to meet his big brother! Both Gorillas were generously sponsored by Bristol Blue Glass. http://bristol-glass.co.uk/xcart/home.php?cat=

The children, several of them dressed as pirates for the occasion, gave him a fantastic welcome to his summer home at Arnos Vale Cemetery.

The 'Wow Gorillas' project celebrates Bristol Zoo Gardens 175th anniversary, and the sculptures will be out for the public to view until early September. They will then be auctioned to raise money for Gorilla conservation projects and the Bristol Charity 'Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal.' http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/wow-gorillas

Arnos Vale Cemetery run a variety of activities for children including 'Name the Gorilla' and 'Gorilla Colouring' Competitions http://www.arnosvale.org.uk/index.php/whatson/latestevents