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The sale of my canvas for The Dog Project raised £2000 for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital charity.
To see all the canvases, including some by celebrities and well-known artists such as Damien Hirst and Gary Hume, and find how much they raised, please visit The Dog Project web site.
Last chance for you to bid on my Dog Project canvas!
You have until the end of today to bid on my dog canvas. Bids will be updated online until 5pm today, any bids after that will be blind. The earliest, highest bid will win. Make sure you get your bids in asap.
The canvases will now be remaining at The Hospital Gallery until Friday 9th February.
The BBC website today featured a photo of Ricky Gervais with his canvas at the Dog Project auction. The sale of his canvas raised £2,200 for Great Ormond Street Hospital.
You can visit the Hospital Gallery to view the entire collection of dog canvases, and bid on the remaining canvases at the gallery or via the Dog Project web site, until the 7th February.
(PS. You can still bid on my dog canvas until 7th February)
For celebrated osteopath Simon Freedman, who runs renowned healthcare practice alive + well in Covent Garden, the “dog project” had an accidental birth.
When Jensen Parsons was five he scribbled a picture on a pad, and that was Boil the dog. Boil went onto a canvas to make him more permanent, and all of a sudden everybody wanted to paint a dog canvas. It was extraordinary how different people expressed themselves, and that was the start of the alive + well dog project.
Simon contacted Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, told them what he had in mind and they were very keen to be involved. The rest has been fun, but far from easy. Almost all those involved are friends, patients or friends of friends and patients. And whilst Emma (Jensen’s mum) has been busily tracing canvasses on the kitchen table and sending out packages to people, the whole thing has spiralled into quite an event.
Featuring canvases by Anthony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Jack and Dinos Chapman, Nicole Farhi and Paul McCartney as well as over 80 others (including canvases by Neil and myself at Camber) the event will take place on the 31st January 2007 where the canvases will be auctioned by Sothebys.
At Camber, we have given our time to creating the website for the project, designing and producing the book and helping Simon and Emma to realise this most incredible dream for a truly worthy cause.