Excelify Blog — grand appeal

New home for Trunki Gromit

Posted On: art carys ink charity grand appeal gromit unleashed October 2013 tipu trunki

New home for Trunki Gromit

You might remember that this summer Trunki sponsored a Gromit as part of the fab Gromit Unleashed - a public art exhibition led by Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal and Aardman Animations. 'Our' Gromit was a Mexican wrestler tiger designed and created by Carys Tait and displayed at Windmill Hill City Farm. We were pretty fond of him. But now he's got a new home! All 80 sculptures were auctioned off at the start of October raising an amazing £2.3 million for the Grand Appeal. Our tiger went for an incredible £26,000 and was bought by the mum of a...

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A Grand Day Out!

Posted On: bristol carys ink grand appeal gromit July 2013 trunki

A Grand Day Out!

Bristol is being graced with 80 Gromits this summer as part of The Grand Appeal to raise money for Bristol’s Children’s Hospital. As soon as we heard about the project we put our names down to be a sponsor, and when we had to choose ours, we wasted no time in selecting Carys Ink’s design, ‘Grrrrromit’. He’s part tiger, part Mexican wrestler, and 100% awesome! If you’re interested to find out how you go about designing and painting a 5 foot dog, then take a look on Carys’ blog here.

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