We went to the Special PPP (Penguin Painting Place) on Sunday to meet the artist, Julie Dodd, who won the competition to design the Special ArtInLiverpool go-penguin. She has been making excellent progress already and we are delighted with the [...]
Liverpool artwork of the week 2009-47. ‘Splashy’ Go-Penguin by Julie Dodd for artinliverpool.com. Hope Street, Liverpool. 22 November 2009 – 10 January 2010. When the go-penguins were first announced artinliverpool.com held a competition for artists to submit designs for our [...]
Reminder to artists in the region to get your designs in for the Go Pemguins project. The deadline is 4 September 2009. You can apply for an artist pack from the go-penguins website or now you can download it from [...]
This guy is just inherently cute isn’t he? But he needs dressing up a bit, certainly before the Winter arrives when he’ll be on show with others from his colony somewhere in Liverpool. So this is a REMINDER to artists [...]
So the live auction event at St George’s Hall is not happening but there will be a chance for people to view them there and bid online. Go Penguins auction to go global following ‘People’s Preview’ • Go Penguins auction [...]
UPDATE: There will not, after all, be a live auction in St George’s Hall. This has been replaced by an online only auction. Please see full details here Exclusive opportunity to pick up your favourite penguin! Go Penguins Charity Auction, [...]
Quite sad today to see Splashy the penguin we sponsored for the last time (maybe), we hope she goes to a good home. I’m sure some of those purchased will go back on public display in some venues but many [...]
This should be my final post on the subject of penguins. We really enjoyed our involvement with the Go Penguin project. It was great to sponsor our own penguin, Splashy, which was created by Julie Dodd after we ran a [...]
Seems its too cold even for penguins, well one penguin anyway. The Feathered Fashionista penguin (beautifully painted by Amanda Oliphant) is used to a comfortable life and was spotted checking in to the new Hilton Hotel before enjoying some seafood [...]
Home Bargains and Go Penguins have boosted Liverpool Lord Mayor’s Charity Appeal by an astonishing £20,000 – just weeks into the public art extravaganza and months before its gala auction is due to take place. The profits were generated by [...]
Many thanks to the artist, Nicola Windever, for mentioning the ArtInLiverpool blog on Radio Merseyside last night. TV and radio star Paul O’Grady has created his first work of public art – a penguin as an old lady! The chat [...]
Thursday 13th of August 2009 from 1pm Go Penguins will be doing a tour of artist spaces in the City. Katie will be handing out artist application packs and be dressed in a top hat and tails with a truck [...]
If you, or your children, are penguin fanatics you may like to read the first episode of Phil Redmond’s Tale of Patrick the Penguin. Its in the Echo. The Ice is Gone Patrick woke. Like he did every day. With [...]
Just a reminder that the deadline is Monday 19 October 2009 for designs to be in for the Liverpool ONE Go Penguin. If you’d like to design an outfit for the Liverpool ONE penguin expressing what Liverpool style means to [...]
We were out at 7 a.m. today to see our Go Penguin arrive at the suitcases on Hope Street. The artinliverpool.com penguin, ‘Splashy‘ who was designed and painted by Julie Dodd looks fantastic, as do all the other penguins. They’ll [...]
Bid on your favourite penguin from anywhere in the world… 3 – 5 February 2010 I struggled at first to digest all the data but I hope I’m correcting in saying… – You can register now if you intend [...]