On September the 5th, I was traipsing around Birmingham City Centre searching for fibreglass owls. One I found was number 57: Active Owl by Craig Earp. Visit my Virgin Money Giving page and please give generously in aid of Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Craig Earp is a Birmingham-based artist whose inspiration for his work wholly centres around both […]
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On September the 5th, I was traipsing around Birmingham City Centre searching for fibreglass owls. One I found was number 56: Unity within Diversity by Somia Jamal. Visit my Virgin Money Giving page and please give generously in aid of Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Somia’s ‘Unity within Diversity’ owl is inspired by the artist’s native homeland, Pakistan, and
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On September the 5th, I was traipsing around Birmingham City Centre searching for fibreglass owls. One I found was number 55: Tick-Tock by Illona Clark. As a bonus this photograph also captures a brazen gentleman playing with his retractable lens. Visit my Virgin Money Giving page and please give generously in aid of Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Illona
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On September the 5th, I was traipsing around Birmingham City Centre searching for fibreglass owls. One I found was number 54: New Street Flyer by Mik Richardson. Visit my Virgin Money Giving page and please give generously in aid of Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Mik Richardson is a Norfolk based artist who has run his own mural design
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On September the 5th, I was traipsing around Birmingham City Centre searching for fibreglass owls. One I found was number 58: Alf the Penguin Owl by Deven Bhurke. Visit my Virgin Money Giving page and please give generously in aid of Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Deven Bhurke is an artist and graphic designer with a versatile style. He
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On September the 5th, I was traipsing around Birmingham City Centre searching for fibreglass owls. One I found was number 35: Ozzy’s Owl by Ozzy Osbourne and Graham Frank Wright. Visit my Virgin Money Giving page and please give generously in aid of Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Graham Frank Wright, described as an artist, author, photographer
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This afternoon I was traipsing around Birmingham City Centre searching for fibreglass owls. One I found was number 34: Nightingale by Miah Gill (Design) and Glenn Anderson (Painter). Miah Gill is a student at Tudor Grange Academy Solihull. She won the Lloyds Bank Competition to design an owl and working with artist Glenn Anderson, they produced
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This afternoon I was traipsing around Birmingham City Centre searching for fibreglass owls. One I found was number 37, Owl Aboard! by Milan Topalovic. Milan Topalovic is a Birmingham-born illustrator residing in a ‘nest’ not far from Cadbury World. He was a winner in the Best of British Illustration 2012 publication and was awarded an Emerging
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1 down, 88 to go… Today I ventured to Twycross Zoo to begin my Big Hoot trail with number 68 entitled Rainforest by Anna Dunn. Anna Dunn is a designer and illustrator based in London – specialising in editorial illustration. She loves happy things, bright colours and cats, and has become rather attached to owls too,
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The Big Hoot is a mass participation public art event comprising of 89 individually designed large fibreglass owl sculptures forming a trail across Birmingham for 10 weeks from 20 July until the end of September. Corporate sponsors, Birmingham stakeholders, artists and community groups have come together to support The Big Hoot, transforming the streets, parks
