EMI Art Project: Adopt a Gnome For Charity – Bidding Closes 30th Dec!

At the forefront of EMI Music’s Surry Hills HQ are four looming windows that face out onto Flinders Street, two of which feature rotating art installations aimed at giving back to Sydney’s vibrant art community.

Throughout December and January a series of 10 garden gnomes will take residence in the EMI right-hand-side Art Project window. Each gnome has been customised by a local artist and will be auctioned on eBay for charity with all proceeds going to local charity The Girls & Boys Brigade. Bidding is now open!

Contributing artists include Esjay, Pigeon Boy, qwux, DICKIE, Jaxie Yael, Akira Alvarez, Antone Benois, Sanchez, TMOD and local 12-year old artist Tripp Bianco.

Dubbed as the ‘EMI Art Project’, recent local contributors have included Beastman, Esjay, Kris Moyes, Thomas Rawle (Papa Vs Pretty) and the Ma. Gallery.

BIDDING IS NOW OPEN and starts at $20 per Gnome – bid on your Gnome HERE!

BIDDING CLOSES ON 30TH DECEMBER 2011! Happy bidding!

About The Girls & Boys Brigade
The Girls & Boys Brigade (GBB) is a charity that has been servicing and supporting the diverse needs of underprivileged children and youth living in inner city Sydney for almost 130 years. Their role is to ensure that children and youth living in complex and difficult family circumstances are given opportunities for appropriate support, development and stability in their lives. The work undertaken is preventative in nature and recognises that early intervention and nurturing can help children and youth become happy, healthy, resilient and productive adults. Situated at Riley Street, Surry Hills the GBB provides recreation, education and life skills programs during after school hours, in the evenings, on weekends and school holidays. Programs and activities are provided at the centre, and through excursions and camps. Their President is John Fairfax, his great grandfather Sir James Fairfax of The Sydney Morning Herald started the GBB in 1882.