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With the wonderful positive messages and colours chosen by Martin Dougan, we wanted Martin’s quotes to be loud and proud, bright and beautiful. The rocket represents our journey - our message reaches for the stars. Be proud of who you are.

The Quickie Q300 Mini M powered wheelchair has been generously supplied by Sunrise Medical, which enables ‘A Proud Message to You’ to explore the trail with his mini-Morph friends

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Martin is a television presenter. Born with cerebral palsy, Martin has been a wheelchair user all of his life. For almost ten years Martin hosted CBBC’s Newsround and has covered two Paralympics and two consecutive Commonwealth Games. On top of this, Martin has represented Scotland at wheelchair basketball.

Elaine is an artist and illustrator, specialising in illustrative architectural paintings, and has embarked on many interesting projects and collaborations, including the Tunbridge Wells platform 2 mural, book illustrations, illustrated town and tourism maps, as well as commissions with the National Trust. Working mainly by commission, ‘Your story illustrated’ is a very special and specific style of Elaine’s work, a beautiful personalised piece of bespoke art depicting your special places and cherished memories. Elaine also took park in Wild in Art’s Elmer’s Big Art Parade, raising funds for Heart of Kent Hospice.

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Sunrise Medical is a world leader in the development, design, manufacture and distribution of manual wheelchairs, powered wheelchairs, mobility scooters, mobility aids and both standard and customised seating and positioning systems. Our key products, marketed under the Quickie, Zippie, Breezy, Sterling, JAY, Coopers and Lomax proprietary brands, are sold through a network of homecare medical product dealers or distributors in over 130 countries.

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Apart Together celebrates London’s diversity using Morph’s playfulness. The colourful humanoid shapes represent our unique attributes while being able to adapt and make space for those around us. This is how I aspire for diversity to be celebrated - we can appreciate our individual cultures and traditions, but ultimately, let’s be open to make space, learn from others and stand stronger together.

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An independent artist, born in the UK from Jamaican and English heritage, I use my creativity to explore and express my journey as I discover where I ‘fit’ in the white and black diaspora. I lean towards ‘humanoid’ figures by playing with shapes, toying with ideas of beauty and traditional representations of people in art. My work favours clay modelling, but even when painting, I love tactility; being able to feel how I’ve moulded and shaped my creations.

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At EY, our purpose is building a better working world. The insights and services we provide help to create long-term value for clients, people and society, and to build trust in the capital markets.

“At EY we are proud we’re building on our long-standing relationship with Whizz-Kidz and sponsoring ‘Morph’s Epic Art Adventures’, which promotes accessibility and inclusion. We are looking forward to seeing the sculptures around London, which will create much-needed conversation, particularly around the restrictions young wheelchair users face every day.”

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The design is inspired by the themes of accessibility and mobility, the title ‘Apples and Pears’ is the well-known London Cockney rhyming slang phrase meaning ‘stairs’…stairs and steps being a major challenge for anyone with mobility issues. The design is also a fun game of pairs, there are two the same of each apple and pear. And there is one pear that isn’t a pair, can you find the odd one out that doesn’t have a match?

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Helen trained in Illustration at Brighton Uni and over the years has worked on a wide variety of projects, including children’s educational books, humorous greetings cards and currently also works part time in a fun ceramic painting studio. She lives near Colchester and has painted many giant creatures for other Wild in Art trails since 2013.

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WeWork Inc. (NYSE: WE) was founded in 2010 with the vision to create environments where people and companies come together and do their best work. Since then, we’ve become the leading global flexible space provider committed to delivering technology-driven turnkey solutions, flexible spaces, and community experiences.

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Space explorers go above and beyond & Astromorph is no exception. After years of training, our lovable Morph is now ready for his next mission of going into space, showing everybody is capable of achieving their dreams!

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Megan Heather Smith-Evans is a Birmingham-based tattooist and artist, focusing mainly on sculpture painting and pet portraiture. Megan also takes on various commission work and enjoys large-scale acrylic painting, working on many sculptures around the country for various art trails.

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Solopress is the UK’s most trusted printer, with more 5-star Trustpilot reviews than any other UK company. They support businesses throughout with fast turnaround times, excellent quality and exceptional customer service. Solopress.com features a huge range of products from leaflets to lanyards, with free UK delivery on all orders.

“We’re honoured to be the print partner of Morph’s Epic Art Adventure and to be supporting this incredible charity. The needs of young wheelchair users are often overlooked, so we hope that this event helps to shine a light on the subject and the amazing service that Whizz-Kidz carries out.”

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It’s much more important to be yourself than to follow the crowd and that’s the message behind my book, ‘Odd Dog Out’. The lead character (a dachshund) wears a rainbow striped scarf to emphasise the full spectrum of wonderful people (and dogs) in the world. Everybody has the right to live how they choose, and we love celebrating individuality. We are all so different and not one person (or Morph) is the same. We can all blaze our own trail – how cool is that?

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Award-winning author and illustrator, Rob Biddulph is the creator of twelve picture books, a range of bestselling ‘Draw with Rob’ activity books and a middle-grade fiction series starring Peanut Jones. Rob’s series of #Draw with Rob videos, designed to help parents with children at home from school due to the pandemic, became a viral hit when launched in March 2020 and have been watched almost seven million times on YouTube since then. Rob also holds the Guinness World Record for the biggest online art lesson, set when over 40,000 families joined him online to draw a whale in May 2020.

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Sky is delighted to sponsor Morph’s Epic Art Adventure trail, bringing to life one of the most-loved characters on Sky Kids screens in a series of brilliant and bold designs across London. This is the perfect accessible activity which will inspire families to get out together on this step-free city trail. Passers-by can look out for Sky’s very own Morph sculptures one designed by Rob Biddulph located in front of Tower Bridge and the other, the Mega Messy Morph, by the Tate Modern.

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Inspired by a visit to the Princess of Wales Conservatoty at wonderful Kew Gardens. Cacti can survive in harsh conditions, they’ve become a symbol of warmth and unconditional, enduring love. The cactus is also known to symbolise strength and protection, endurance, trust and happiness

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Traci creates paintings & textile based huggable characters, using colourways & fabrics that hold a special significance to each project. Her palettes are influenced by the positive values of each colour used in the designs, which are often inspired by the joyful & optimistic imaginations of children, along with the wonderfully diverse & colourful cultures she experienced when living & working in South Africa for ten years. Traci thoroughly enjoys her arty adventures & over the last few years she has found great delight in painting a wonderful variety of Wild in Art sculptures.

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City Sightseeing offers three hop-on, hop-off sightseeing routes to present the very best of London to the capital’s tourists and visitors. Informative and helpful multi-lingual audio commentary is provided in 11 languages to welcome and entertain our foreign-speaking guests. Entrust your London experience to “those nice people from City Sightseeing”.

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Canary Morph couldn’t be more different to London’s busy business district, Canary Wharf. The only business our canary is interested in, is getting on with the trail, I’m sure our bird will fly high to help the trail goers find the rest of the wonderful sculptures across London. Our design is a bold and bright yellow, bringing the fun and sunshine to Morphs Epic Art Adventure!

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Reilly Creative are an artistic Husband & Wife. When they aren’t on a project together, Lynsey is a freelance Scenic Artist, painting for theatres and theming companies across the UK. Kieron is a Caricature Artist drawing live at weddings and events as well as drawing digitally from photos for private commissions and gifts.

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Northern Trust is a preeminent global financial institution that provides asset servicing, investment management and wealth management services for institutions, high-net-worth individuals and families. For more than 130 years, our success has been anchored in one purpose: to serve as our clients’ most trusted financial partner, guarding and growing their assets as though they are our own.

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Morph has so many amazing adventures, I thought a fitting outfit for him to try would be that of an old fashioned aviator (with a fabulous moustache of course)! I think Morph would make a great pilot, especially in an old biplane, performing amazing aerobatic manoeuvres like the daring loop the loop! Morph’s outfit includes a brown leather hat and goggles for safety, some sturdy lace up boots, beige trousers and a fun aviator’s jacket complete with logo on the back. It also includes a bright, white scarf to keep him warm when zooming around the skies!

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I have always had a passion for drawing since a young age and finally got to complete my Masters in Illustration in 2020. I love being able to depict narrative through my drawings and have recently illustrated a children’s picture book - Alun in the Attic. I thoroughly enjoyed this experience as it had been a goal of mine for a number of years and is something that I have now achieved. I work with different media, digital, pencil, watercolour and acrylics. Over the last couple of years I have enjoyed painting pet portraits in acrylics, dogs being a particular favourite to paint as I have 2 of my own.

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Royal British Legion Industries is a national charity providing vital employment, welfare and accommodation support to the country’s most disadvantaged military veterans and their families. The charity provides a home to more than 350 veterans and their families on their Kent village. The village provides emergency accommodation for homeless veterans, family homes, assisted living accommodation, care homes and specialist dementia care. On the same village is RBLI’s social enterprise, Britain’s Bravest Manufacturing Company, which employs more than 100 people - 70% of whom are veterans, have a disability or both. Their teams of injured military veterans produce road, rail and commercial signage for organisations and projects throughout the UK. RBLI is proud to partner with Whizz-Kids to help produce signs for Morph’s Epic Art Adventure which will do so much to highlight the challenges faced by wheelchair users.

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Ade Adepitan MBE is a TV presenter, Paralympic medallist, journalist and father. Cyborg Cat is the much loved character from his children’s book series of the same name. Ade grew up thinking that superheroes don’t look like him (they don’t have disabilities), so with illustrator Carl Pearce, they have created ‘Cyborg Cat’, a superhero character who wears a leg brace.

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Born and raised on the North Wales coast amongst castles, ruins, mountains and beaches, on a diet of 80’s Saturday morning cartoons, comic books and movies, Carl Pearce wanted nothing more than to grow up to be a detective. However, that didn’t work out. Falling back on his ability to draw, Carl attended The North Wales School of Art and Design. He pursued a career in illustration. Carl still lives in North Wales, sketching artwork for children’s books all day, but now has the company of his lovely wife and two beautifully cheeky kids. And when he grows up he still wants to be a detective. Or a Ghostbuster.

Mik Richardson has produced over 400 murals, and has also been involved in many public art trails across the country. He has painted 97 Wild in Art sculptures for 47 trails and 29 others for other trails, raising over £400,000 for the charities involved. Mik has also illustrated his first children’s story book based around one of the Wild in Art sculptures that he designed & painted.

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Chaucer are a leading specialty (re)insurance group working with brokers, coverholders and clients to protect and support business activities around the world. Our services are accessed both through Lloyd’s of London and the company markets.

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Aardman’s Morph, so well known and loved in the 80’s, has been dressed to suit the era’s trends, with his short shorts and multicoloured dancewear as seen in films such as ‘Flash Dance’ and ‘Break Dance’, and his top a play on the “Frankie Says Relax” t-shirt popularised by George Michael and Holly Johnson. This is one happy relaxed dancing little guy. He coaches ‘Morphomatic’ at night trying to loosen up his style. Choose Flash Dance Morph!

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Glen @Studio.Glen, has been a multidisciplinary artist, coach and consultant for 25 years. He produces the finest oil paintings and fine art through private and public commissions, TV and theatres to producing work with Damien Hirst and the Connor Brothers. His portfolio demonstrates a treasure trove of art practices, from the traditional to the modern. Jane Mota @ladyoftheliteraarty is a creative academic with an Art and Literature background. Her ideas combine a creative love of words and writing and images, art history, popular culture or nature to create a unique but cohesive piece of artwork. Visit our “Sneak Peeks of the Week!” on IG @Studio.Glen

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