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Anti-ivory campaign turns into global sale of ‘outsider art’

It’s art for art’s sake and nature’s too when outsider art from across the globe goes under the hammer at Leonard Joel next month to raise money to help save Africa’s elephants.

Leonard Joel has teamed with the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to present the ambitious auction of works by artists with disabilities from supported studios in Australia, Canada, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The money raised from the sale will be evenly split between the artists and IFAW’s “Room to Roam”, a campaign to protect the wild habitats of threatened African elephants and other animals.

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Gabriella Coslovich is an arts journalist with more than 20 years’ experience, including 15 at The Age, where she was a senior arts writer. Her book, Whiteley on Trial, on Australia’s most audacious of alleged art fraud, won a Walkley in 2018.

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