TOGETHER FOR PANGOLINS, on July 25th, is a collaboration between Everard Read Gallery, Stauss & Co Art Auctioneers, and the African Pangolin Working Group. The aim is to raise awareness and  funds for the continued work of saving pangolins now and in the future. Everard Read has donated its CIRCA Art Gallery for this event – an architectural landmark, on the Keyes Art Mile. CIRCA winds its way up three stories in a Fibonacci spiral – a golden ratio found all throughout nature, and significantly in the coil of a pangolin.

The speaker at the event is Pippa Ehrlich – the multi-award winning co-writer and director of the Netflix documentary “My Octopus Teacher”. Pippa will talk about her next film, which explores the intimate relationship between a pangolin named Kajima and his minder Gareth Thomas, while Kajima was being rehabilitated and then released back into a protected wildlife reserve. Gareth Thomas will also be at CIRCA event, and his photograph of Kajima – framed in the wood of Kajima’s sleeping box, will be on auction.

For the event at CIRCA Art Gallery, a curated collection of mainly pangolin-themed artworks and sculptures, will be auctioned, by the dynamic Executive Director of Strauss & Co, Susie Goodman.

Online Auction at Strauss & Co

Also for pangolin conservation, and running concurrently with the July 25th event at CIRCA; Strauss & Co will have an exhibition of works for viewing at their gallery, in Houghton, Johannesburg, which will be auctioned from their online platform, between July 24th and August 5th – accessed through the Strauss & Co website. The works are all by upcoming and established artists and sculptors, who have aligned themselves with this important conservation cause.

The artist, speaker and donors of these events have been incredibly generous and all have an intense love of endangered species and the environment in which they live. We would like to thank them all!

Other donors  include Painted Wolf Wines, Rand Merchant Bank, Africa Massive, Umlani Bushcamp, andBeyond Phinda Private Game Reserve, Vergelegen Wine Estate, Adlip Video, Reciprocal Wine Company, Charles Greig Jewellers, African Pewter, Carolynne Waterhouse and  Mark-it Wise.