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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.
The Alive + Well Dog Project auction on Wednesday the 31st was a huge success, raising over £132,000 on the sale of 30 pictures. Kylie’s achieved £3,500 and Damien Hirst’s hit a whopping £27,000.
There are still 100 paintings available from the silent auction online that are at anything from £100 to £1,500 at present. Have a look and bid on the remaining canvases at:
www.dogproject.co.uk/dog-project-gallery.php
The online auction will end on Wednesday 6th February at 5pm. Bids will be updated online until 5pm on the 5th, any bids after that will be blind. The earliest, highest bid will win.
Here are some photos from the live event:
From the top: My Dog Canvas, The Gallery, Celebrity Dog Canvases (x2)
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.