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A “BEAUTY contest” of penguin designs was held at Liverpool’s Maritime Museum in preparation for the creatures going on display later this year.

Organisers of “Go Penguins” are hoping the public art event will repeat the phenomenal success of Go Superlambananas during Capital of Culture year.

This time, artists are being invited to submit their designs for penguins, which from November 22 will start to appear all around the city centre for the festive season.

The entries were grouped around different categories such as Liverpool, the environment, festive, and people.

Inevitably, many of the designs were inspired by the Beatles, with one showing a group of penguins replicating the famous cover of the Abbey Road album, and another entitled Sgt Penguins’ Lovely Arctic Band.

This year, a number of the designs will feature in areas outside the city, such as Wirral, Sefton, and St Helens.

Organisers from Wild in Art – the team who brought the city Go Superlambananas – were inundated with more than 500 penguin designs from local artists.

Wild in Art’s director Sally-Ann Wilkinson said: “These amazing creations provide a showcase for the very best of the region’s creative talent.

“There is a whole sense of everyone coming together, as happened last year with Go Superlambananas.

In an interview with Phil Redmand we asked him how they decided on the penguin theme.
He said,

"Of course, part of the challenge and the fun is figuring out how to top the preceding week, month or year’s major storyline. At the same time we also had to keep it as real as we could, within a fictional setting, all the time trying to avoid the trap of escalatory “sensation” which, I admit, we occasionally fell in to.

"It would have been possible to come up with a new twist on the SLB Trail, perhaps by spreading it further afield to allow other areas like Knowsley, St Helens and the Wirral to host herds of SLBs in their open spaces. To provide focal points for people to travel and explore areas and venues they may not do otherwise.
On the other hand, people are always looking for something new and exciting. So what to do next?
The answer: reach for one of the other great tricks of soap production. Introduce new characters to take the focus off the regular characters. And so, courtesy of Culture Liverpool, to follow the Go Superlambananas we have – Go Penguins!"

" Think of Happy Feet, Madagascar, Disney’s Club Penguin, Pingu and March Of The Penguins and you know that your intended audience will already have some idea and above all some empathy with whatever character you create."




"Already “the buzz” is beginning. You may have already seen or heard that sponsors are coming forward and naming their own penguins but these are all based on the generic design, something that represents a shape that covers almost all of the 17 different penguin species. Now there’s something worth looking up!"

"However, in true telly fashion, like a classic trailer, sometime soon a very special penguin called Patrick will arrive in the city. Patrick is a young, teenage rock hopper penguin. "

"He has attitude. Because he is mad. His ice cap is melting and he wants it fixed. He has heard Liverpool is the centre of the creative universe and social justice, so if there is a solution to be found it will be with the Scousers. "

"This will be my own contribution, working with the local media, to provide a back-story of how the penguins actually arrive in the city. For six weeks I will be writing here in the Liverpool ECHO about where and what Patrick gets up to in and around the city while he summons and waits for his colony to come and support his environmental campaign. "

"Throughout this time Patrick will occasionally appear and be spotted in odd places as he drums up support for the penguins’ arrival and following the principle of allowing people to create, not just consume culture, I would welcome any ideas as to where Patrick should go to make his case heard."

"Hilbre Island and Chester Zoo are obvious targets for him to meet and talk with fellow penguins and gulls, just as he will want to pay his respects to his ancestors in the World Museum, but where else should he go? "

If you have a good idea or even a reason why Patrick should visit you, write to Patrick the Penguin, Liverpool ECHO, Features Dept, Old Hall Street, Liverpool L69 3EB or email letters@liverpoolecho.co.uk and let me know and I’ll make it part of the story.

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