Uganda Conservation Foundation - Wild Endeavours

The Selectors

Some of the Artists

Wild Endeavours is a charity fund raising art exhibition to be held in support of the work of the Uganda Conservation Foundation (Registered Charity No. 1087295) at Collyer Bristow Gallery, 4 Bedford Row, London, WC1R 4DF from 10th to 27th September 2007.

The exhibition includes work from Ugandan artists, including Teresa Musoke, Taga Nuwagaba, Paulo Akiiki, Enoch Mukiibi, Achola Rosario and Henry Mzili Mujunga and UK artists Emma Amsden, John Atkins, Philip Cayford QC, Michael Dunne, Gill Graves, Rev Toddy Hoare, Winifred Hodge, Jeremy Houghton, Andrea Hunter, Nancy Murgatroyd, Norma Miller, Margaret Nagawa, Patricia Northcroft, Annabel Pope, Walenty Pytel, Robert Rattray, Richard Snowden, Jo Stockdale, as well as participating artists from The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation.

For further information, please contact Prue Keigwin at UCF, Low Mains Farm, Masham, N Yorks, HG4 4PS or via telephone on 01765 689 499.

Uganda: The Pearl of Africa

The Uganda Conservation Foundation (Registered Charity No. 1087295) was created in 2000, after extensive research on the ground, to channel funds in the most transparent way direct to projects aimed at safeguarding the natural resources of this beautiful yet often-overlooked part of Africa. It was obvious that, unless the people who shared this extraordinary environment thrived, neither it, nor all that lived in it, would survive.

This is why UCF supports projects run from the ground up, in close collaboration with both local communities and the Uganda Wildlife Authority: by protecting farmers' crops from marauding elephants from neighbouring game parks; by providing boats on the lakes and rivers that make it possible for rangers to apprehend poachers, but which are available as life boats for both tourists and local fishermen; by providing bicycles for rangers allowing them to cover their areas better; and by providing rangers with mosquito nets so they do not lose precious days away from work because of malaria. All these efforts also have an appreciable benefit for the local fauna and flora.

Art crosses all boundaries. In the UK we raise funds with Christmas cards using designs kindly donated by a variety of artists. We have also enjoyed the support of David Shepherd and the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation, who are one of the 6 organisations represented by UCF in Uganda in order to maximise funds getting to projects. UCF therefore gratefully welcomed Collyer Bristow's offer to host the Wild Endeavours! exhibition and the opportunity to bring the work of UCF to the attention of a wider audience.

We have been extremely fortunate in the support we have received from artists, and in particular in being able to promote the work of a number of very talented Ugandan artists who have not exhibited in London before. With UCF's registered address in the UK being in Yorkshire, we have also been delighted to forge even stronger links with the established artistic community there, as well as with some very well known and talented artists and sculptors from other parts of the UK - and Collyer Bristow have made it possible to achieve this in the heart of London.

For more information see www.collyerbristow.com