Monday 11 July 2011

Wow! Gorillas

I've previously blogged about Edinburgh's cowparade and Bath has had it's pigs... now Bristol has got in on the act (and the art) with a city-wide invasion of Gorillas.

Celebrating the 175th anniversary of Bristol Zoo Gardens, Wow! Gorillas is raising awareness of - and funds for - Gorilla conservation as well as Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal. For the next two months, 60 fibre-glass Gorillas variously decorated by local artists will be on display around the city ahead of an auction at the end of September.

Over the past few days I've seen a number of them. Indeed on Saturday I went on a Gorilla Safari and managed to take a number of pictures - enough for a few posts of which this is just the first! There'll also be some over on my photo blog too.

Sky Gorilla

Little Fluffy Clouds

Tensor

Mondo

Gorilla Skelana
 Andrew

4 comments:

Stephen Glenn said...

Ooh! Groovy reminds me of the United Buddy Bears that were in Berlin in 2002.

Raybeard said...

If they were intended to be eye-catching I reckon they've succeeded ....AND I think I can identify the gay one. (Now now, Ray - shameful stereotyping!)

oneexwidow said...

Dear, oh dear, Ray...

Stephen - they are indeed groovy. There'll be a few more similar posts in the next couple of weeks too!

Jade said...

Nice gorilla designs! Nice place to go to as well.

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