


While the international CowParade is amusing and philanthropic the multiple-sculpture genre has huge potential as a more avant-garde activity. In ironic mood, a Star Wars army of casts of the novelist Will Self would activate the Edinburgh Festival; several thousand Usain Bolt’s could line the London streets for 2012; and there is no limit to the amount of simulcra of Antony Gormley that might pose on the beaches, motorways and architecture of the world.
Images: Hornbill. ‘Hamish’ by Susan Forsyth ARBS. Crocodile by Olivia Bliss. Tiger by Marc Quinn. Orang Utang by Emily Fogarty and Jonathan Cleaver of Dovecot Studios.
Organised by the charity: Elephant Family who fund conservation projects across Asia.
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