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Oops a Daisy poses with Lucas |
Bristol has gone Gromit crazy all over again. People have been queueing for as long as
six hours to visit The Greatest Dog Show in the World exhibition! I thought the queues would be bad, but not this bad! Suffice to say that we have abandoned our plans to go on Sunday!! Instead, I thought that another Gromit round-up would be a nice idea...
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(clockwise) Two Eds are Better than One, The Wild West, Blossom, Five a Day Dog |
I had to look up the story behind
Two Eds are better than One. Apparently the two Eds in question are Ed Milliband and Ed Balls and the artist, Peter Brooks, is a political cartoonist. That would explain why I was left absolutely cold by this one. Lucas on the other hand thought it was very funny!
I absolutely loved
The Wild West, though! All the animals of the West Country, daytime and nocturnal, and with a badger on his bottom. He was really fun, especially the ladybird eyes.
Blossom, as his name suggests, is absolutely covered in flower blossoms. She was very pretty, and worthy of a cuddle.
Five a Day Dog wasn't quite as I'd expected, but had certainly had both some Victorian elegance and his five a day!
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Gromberry! |
Gromberry deserves some extra love, I think! He's been very cleverly painted to produce a seeded texture while remaining absolutely flat. I had to touch him to make sure! I love his collar, and the strawberry stalk tail is just perfect.
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(clockwise) Bristol Bulldog, Creature Comforts, The Secret Garden, Eldoradog, Oops a Daisy, Harmony |
We trekked out to the airport one day to find
Bristol Bulldog--named for a plane, Lucas tells me--and also claimed
The Secret Garden and
Oops a Daisy while we were at it.
Oops a Daisy was awesome...such a simple design but it works
so well. He looked great in the courtyard at Tyntesfield.
Harmony and
Eldoradog were a bit far flung, too, with
Harmony in the beer garden of a pub in Hawkesbury Upton and
Eldoradog just outside Westonbirt Arboretum. I loved all the delicately painted birds on
Harmony but found
Eldoradog a bit garish.
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(clockwise) Sugar Plum, The Green Gromit, Antique Rose, Feathers |
Both
Antique Rose and
The Green Gromit were easy to find out at The Mall.
Antique Rose was designed by Cath Kidston, and was, well...very Cath Kidston.
The Green Gromit was designed by one of the lads from One Direction and thus had a lot of fans. To us, however, it was a rather thinly veiled Green Lantern Gromit. (Gromit
would make a good member of the Green Lantern Corps, though!)
I liked
Sugar Plum, outside The Redgrave Theatre in Clifton--very simple and understated.
Feathers, on Gloucester Road was at the opposite end of the spectrum! Bright, bright, bright and really fun.
Apparently there have been rumours of another art trail in Bristol next Summer (so say a few people who've managed to get into the exhibition). They'll have to work hard to top the sheer awesomeness of the Gromits! I can't wait to hear how much they raise at auction (and whether any of them will stay in Bristol)!
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Gromberry is incredible! What a paint job.
ReplyDeleteHope you manage to get into the Greatest Dog Show eventually-I'd like to visit vicariously :o)
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Ahh Gromberry was one of my faves as well! I know what you mean about Eldoradog as well, he was just a bit, well, garish is exactly the right word!
ReplyDeleteWonder what'll be on display next year!? :-) x