‘WWF PANDAMONIUM!’
Leading artists tackle climate change by creating Pandamonium at Selfridges, an exhibition and charity auction in collaboration with WWF-UK.

Raising awareness of climate change and of the natural world, Pandamonium invited 16 artists to deconstruct, manipulate and interact with WWF’s iconic panda-shaped collection units. The striking result is 16 original artworks reflecting today’s global environment.

Since the 1960s, WWF’s iconic panda collecting units used to be a familiar sight in shops, post offices and waiting rooms, silently imploring the passing public to donate loose change to the charity. Over many years the pandas raised crucial funds for the international conservation organisation, before being decommissioned in 2007. Having realised that the pandas were becoming collector’s items in their own right, WWF-UK teamed up with Artwise Curators to challenge a group of leading British artists with a creative brief to bring a group of decommissioned pandas out of storage and into the limelight once more.

These works will be on display for two months occupying the windows to the west of the store (on the corner of Oxford Street and Orchard Street) and within the Selfridges Concept Store. The works will be auctioned to raise funds for WWF-UK at a special event on 12th October. 

For further information about Pandamonium please visit: wwf.org.uk/pandamonium

Pandamonium:
Selfridges, London
Oxford Street – Orchard Street Windows and Concept Store
On view: 4th Sept – 27th Oct 2009

Pandamonium Auction in aid of WWF:
Auction: Monday 12th October 2009 at 7:30pm
For registration details please visit: wwf.org.uk/pandamonium
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