Who's gonna paint your white horses?

Karen Walker is one of 18 “artists” painting a horse for the Resene Fastest Art Exhibition for Auckland Cup Week at Ellerslie and will sell her horse in the charity auction for Breast Cancer…

Karen Walker is one of 18 “artists” painting a horse for the Resene Fastest Art Exhibition for Auckland Cup Week at Ellerslie and will sell her horse in the charity auction benefiting Breast Cancer Research Trust.

Full size white fibreglass horses have been given to artists, designers, musicians, sports stars and creative individuals including Marc Ellis, Lucy Lawless and Karen Walker, Billy Apple, Ra Vincent (sculptor on the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and King Kong movies), Kids of 88, Op Shop, Lucy Lawless, Mark Ellis, the Auckland Blues, and New Zealand Warriors, with a selection of Resene paints and a sign saying “Paint Me”.

Of course, Karen Walker is no stranger to Resene Paints, with her eponymous range of interior paints. But horse flesh is another story.

Below: Karen Walker’s horse arrives white and undergoes its transformation.

Below: You can take the girl out of West Auckland, but you can’t take the West Auckland out of the girl. Black Beauty gets Go Faster flames on its flanks.

For two weeks in February and March 2011, the 18 horses will be spotted around the city, before racing over Ellerslie to prepare for Auckland Cup Week which kicks off Auckland Cup Week 2011 at Ellerslie on Saturday 5th March. At the completion of Auckland Cup Week the painted horses will be auctioned off with the proceeds from each horse going to the charity of its artist’s choice.

If you want to support Karen Walker’s chosen charity of Breast Cancer Research Trust then Like her Facebook page as the artist with the most followers will win an extra $5k for their charity!

2 February 2011.