On our recent visit to Worcester Cathedral we passed several elephants that are part of a current art trail.
Each sculpture has been sponsored by a business and individually designed by an artist – either well-known or just starting out, from the Worcestershire area or further afield. They marched into the city on Tuesday, 13th July and will leave again from 5pm on Sunday, 5th September 2021. After this, there will be the chance to say a final ‘goodbye’ at a Farewell Event, before each elephant is auctioned to raise funds for St Richard’s Hospice.
The sculptures are delightful, although due to their popularity proved difficult to photograph.
We had this elephant art trail a few years ago.
Right now, we have this lion art trail in London.
These elephants are due to be auctioned off after the exhibition closes.
Yes, they did the same thing in London too.
So if you miss one of the elephants, you can always go to the auction day, where all elephants will be gathered together.
Somehow that is not quite the same as seeing them were originally displayed.
Finding the elephants must have been such fun. Have you seen any of Bill’s on Shutterchance?
I follow Bill on Shutterchance and Facebook but his images haven’t shown up for me. I will check them out
They do this in several cities nationwide, in Norwich they have been auctioning the animals for a children’s charity for some years and raised a lot of money, this picture shows the Go Go Gorillas arriving at auction on a bus.
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That is a fun publicity stunt for the auction
A few years ago we had a similar trail. Lets go quackers.
such a fascinating and lovely elephant
i think art is way to express divinity and beauty of the Nature and there must be no condition to adore it whether it comes from someone as his first expression
Art does express the divinity that is with all of us