Elephant Parade 2010, organised by Elephant Family, is set to be the biggest public art exhibition ever to be staged in London. The UK’s top artists, celebrities and designers will decorate 250 1.4 metre high fibreglass elephants in a bid to raise funds for the conservation of critically endangered Asian elephants. The decorated elephants will be displayed across the capital from May to June with the grand finale of the parade taking place at Sotheby’s auction when funds will be raised for the participating charities.
WLT [World Land Trust] is one of the Parade’s conservation partners and will be exhibiting two elephants; one of them raising funds solely for WLT called Pearly Prince and the other called Green Queen, created jointly with Elephant Family under special arrangement, raising funds for a wildlife corridor in India that both organisations are supporting.
Pearly Prince will be exhibited in the window of Coutts Bank on the Stand and Green Queen in the Wonder of Selfridges on Oxford Street.
The designs so far for the WLT elephants look magnificent and we can’t wait to see them in situ. We also hope that they will raise significant funds for the WLT’s Elephant Corridors Project in India.
For more info on Elephant Parade: http://elephantparadelondon.org/
For more info on World Land Trust: http://www.worldlandtrust.org/
For more info on WLT’s work in India: http://www.worldlandtrust.org/projects/india.htm
Elephant Parade