Schools win place in the Elephant Parade national tour

Children from Copthorne Preparatory School and Dormansland Preparatory School submitted more than 600 design entries for the Elephant Parade local schools programme, which will form a key part of the this year’s national tour, sponsored by intu.

For the first time, the work of school children will stand side by side the creations of top artists for an Elephant Parade that will begin this summer and visit a dozen locations over a period of 10-months. Copthorne Preparatory School and Dormansland Primary school were the first two schools to get involved in the project.

The school creations were judged by Mike Spits, Co-Founder of Elephant Parade, alongside Kylie Wood, Digital Marketing Manager from intu and artists Sophie Coryndon and Keith Siddle.

The competition winners became the youngest ever artists to take part in an Elephant Parade event and will paint their designs on Elephant Parade statues, which will be included in the national tour.

Elephant Parade is a vibrant international public art exposition featuring the artwork of established artists and celebrities on full-sized elephant statues, which are exhibited and sold to raise money for the charity The Asian Elephant Foundation.

Photo by David Parry/PA