101 gorgeous elephant sculptures by leading artists and designers including LN Tallur, Princess Pea, Christian Louboutin, Sabyasachi Mukherjee and Masaba Gupta are scheduled to come to Mumbai for 3 weeks of public display for Elephant Parade India.
The official inauguration of the parade in Mumbai will be on Sunday, 25th February 2018 at the Gateway of India in the presence of Shri Devendra Fadnavis, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shri Sudhir Mungantiwar, Hon'ble Minister of Finance, Planning and Forests and Smt. Poonam Mahajan, Hon'ble Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) and Parade Ambassador.
Following the inauguration, the elephants will be displayed in herds at prominent Mumbai locations to be photographed, hugged and kissed by an admiring public as part of what has become recognised as the world's biggest public art event. Each elephant will be for sale to raise funds for their endangered wild cousins and their forest homes. Created as part of the 2017 UK India Year of Culture, Elephant Parade India is organised by Elephant Family in association with Good Earth.
Following 24 successful Elephant Parades worldwide, Elephant Parade India has engaged leading Indian artists, fashion designers, design institutes, tribal painters & celebrities to transform 101 elephant sculptures into unique painted masterpieces. A selection of elephants have been displayed at special preview events in Jaipur, New Delhi and Kolkata before coming to Mumbai. After the public display, the elephants will be sold in an auction to raise funds for Asian elephant corridors and projects to address human-elephant-conflict throughout India.
Elephant Corridors are the pathways that elephants use to get from one forest feeding ground to the next. Like bridges between islands, they provide vital connections between forest fragments, allowing elephants and other animals to move freely. Elephant Family is working in priority landscapes in partnership with the Wildlife Trust of India to secure 101 elephant corridors in India. Elephant Family also funded the 2017 publication of Right of Passage in which 101 elephant corridors are identified across key regions of India.
Elephant Parade India is an awareness raising campaign aimed at drawing attention to the plight of the endangered Asian elephant whose numbers have fallen by 90% in the last 100 years. Funds raised from the parade will help secure 101 elephant corridors across India for the endangered Asian elephant. The London Elephant Parade, which took place in 2010, became London’s biggest public art exhibition with more than 250 brightly painted elephants located across central London. The sculptures sold for £4.1m and raised awareness for the plight of the endangered Asian elephant with audiences of 25 million people.
Abha Narain Lambah | Good Earth | Princess Pea |
Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla | Gunjan Gupta | Rahul Mishra |
Adil Ahmad | Hanif Kureshi | Rakesh Kumar Memrot |
Alexis Myre | His highness Maharaja Sawai Padmanabh Singh Ji Bahadur of Jaipur and Samir Kasliwal, The Gem Palace, Jaipur | Ravi Vazirani |
Amitabh Bachchan | Jason Woodside | Rekha Rodwittiya |
Amrapali | JCB | Rohit Bal |
Anita Dongre | Jodhpur Royal Family | Sabyasachi Mukherjee |
Anushka Khanna | Kavita Singh | Sanjay Puri |
Aradhana Seth | Kayzad Shroff, Rooshad Shroff and Maria Leon | Seema Kohli |
Arunkumar H G | Klove Design | Sharmila Samant |
Arzan Khambatta | Krsna Mehta | Sheela Gowda |
Ashar Jay | Krupa Zubin and Zubin Zainuddin | Sonal Ambani |
Ashiesh Shah | L N Tallur | Suhasini Kejriwal |
Balu Mashe - Warli Art | Lado Bai | Sujith S N |
Barbara Bilotta | Manish Arora | Sumant Jayakrishnan |
Bhajju Shyam | Manish Malhotra | Suneet Varma with Prateek Dubey |
BMW Motorrad | Manisha Gera Baswani | Sunu Aibara and Phirosa Neterwala |
Brinda Miller | Marie-Anne Oudejans | Surbhi Modi |
Chittrovanu Mazumdar | Marissa Bridge | Sussanne Khan |
Christian Louboutin | Mary Mattingly | Tarun Tahiliani |
Curtis Culig | Masaba Gupta | Tayeba Begum Lipi |
David Yarrow | Michelle Poonawalla | The Bamfords Elephant -Alexis Barrell |
Dhruvi Acharya | Miljan Suknovic | Tommy Zung |
Dileep Sharma | Monisha Jaising | Tushar Joag |
Divya Thakur | Mozez Singh & Mehr Rampal in collaboration with Six Inch Technology | Umang Hutheesing |
Ellen Ball | Nicobar | Valay Shende |
Elsie Nanji & Ayesha Broacha | Paramparik Karigar with Kalyan Joshi | Varun Bahl |
Fumiko Toda | Paramparik Karigar with Pranab Das | Vasundhara Raje by Adil Ahmed |
G R Iranna | Payal Singhal | Veer Munshi |
Gaurav Gupta | Peter D'ascoli | Vibha Galhotra |
Gayatri Sekhri | Pichwai Tradition and Beyond | Vikram Goyal |
Geoff Studios | Prabhakar Pachpute & Rupali Patil | Vinita Chaitanya |
George Martin | His highness Maharaja Sawai Padmanabh Singh Ji Bahadur of Jaipur |