World Vision Promo Video

This World Vision/Rampant Art 4 Aid promotional vid shows the SPAM Away team in action at the Leigh Sawmill Café.

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Art Auction

One of the best ways to light up the third world is to hang a SPAM
masterpiece on your wall. Original art pieces created by the St Paul’s Arts
& Media (SPAM) collective of artists, media and advertising folk are up for
auction now, for one week only on TradeMe. All proceeds go to World
Vision to support those living in poverty in Mongolia (which makes your art
beautiful on the inside too). Remember, if we don’t find a home for the art
by Monday 27, Mongolia gets it. So pick out your masterpiece now and get
bidding on www.rampant.co.nz/trademe

Auction: Tuesday 21 August - Monday 27 August.

UPDATE

Well done to all those involved in the SPAM Online Art Auction - you just made the world a better place.

In an art-buying frenzy (of paintings created by SPAMmers) over $1,700 was raised for World Vision. These funds will help bring hope to people living in poverty in Mongolia – which makes the art beautiful on the inside too. And not only that, the SPAM Auction helped World Vision in launching their Art4Aid initiative www.worldvision.org.nz/rampant/Art which has huge potential for getting people involved in a fantastic cause.

Special thanks goes to Claire Annan for her design work, Nicci Doak for the email creative, Adrian Fitzgerald for his outstanding photo retouching, Jordan Dodson and Tom Roberton for photography, Megan Robinson, Tom and James Bowman for much appreciated co-ordination and assistance. And of course big thanks to the artists – cos if there was no art there’d be no dollaros off to Mongolia.

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SPAM goes Guggenheim

Article by Megan Robinson
SPAM goes Guggenheim' took over Leigh Sawmill Cafe on Saturday 9th of June as 48 Creatives left Auckland behind for a day of Creative Madness making paintings to auction for a World Vision project.
After a typically long lunch they gathered for a talk in the Upper Room, appropriately enough for Pentecost. The art will be auctioned this August, launching World Vision’s Art 4 Aid, a new concept that will be taken to New Zealanders to get people using their creative talents for great causes. “It’s fantastic for World Vision to be so involved in SPAM’s Away Day” says organisor Jo Harwood of Exposure. “The potential for us to create awareness around global issues and have a major positive impact on the lives of those less fortunate is massive. And a whole lot of fun.”
Leigh Sawmill Cafe was transformed into an art studio with artists working solo or in pairs on canvases with paints and varying degrees of artistic merit and experience but generally massive amounts of drive to help out the cause. Petra Bagust was well in her element, as a spokesperson for World Vision and a graduate of fine arts she was completely at home with a brush in one arm and a baby in the other. Others were less comfortable.
Nothing summed up the theme AWAY more than the word 'away' for SPAM co-leader Kevin Denholm with his large black text painting. It was a case of art not just for art’s sake but for God’s sake. "I'm not a painter" wailed the plaintive cry from many an Ad Creative or Film Technician as they picked up cheap wooden brushes and acrylic tubes for the first time in 20 years. Well, it's all for the children...
The outspoken and charismatic ex-Hamiltron Ad Creative legend Daryl Parsons (creator of 42 Below, Ferrit, and Yahoo/xtra ad campaigns) spoke on knowing yourself and allowing you to be the creative you are, and the difference between the two disciples- the organisor Paul and creative, passionate Peter.
We ended the day with a time of reflection and listening to God. Kevin Denholm collected prayers on post-it notes in the start of the official SPAM Prayer Book and Tom and Kevin read out the corporate prayers.
‘SPAM goes Guggenheim’ may have brought painting madness to Leigh – not to mention a disparate bunch of unorganised creative Peters together – but it will hopefully bring hope to hundreds. The arty carry-on will be auctioned on Trademe in August 2007 to raise funds for World Vision’s project providing loans to businesses in Mongolia, giving the poor a hand-up to help themselves where no-one else will.