{"id":29035,"date":"2018-06-03T22:23:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T21:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=29035"},"modified":"2018-06-03T22:23:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T21:23:01","slug":"evesham-observer-wishful-toyah-proves-shes-all-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/evesham-observer-wishful-toyah-proves-shes-all-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Evesham Observer: Wishful Toyah Proves She\u2019s All Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eveshamobserver.co.uk\/news\/wishful-toyah-proves-shes-all-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/eveshamobserver.co.uk\/news\/wishful-toyah-proves-shes-all-art\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29036 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"eveshamob18a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/eveshamob18a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>Artwork designed by celebrated singer, actress and Pershore resident Toyah Willcox has been used to decorate a giraffe sculpture for the Worcester Stands Tall trail.<\/p>\n<p>The prolific performer, whose career has spanned more than 40 years, themed her design around the idea of \u2018making a wish\u2019 \u2013 with the giraffe covered in stars, animals and children.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Touch the Wishing Stars\u2019 has been brought to life on the eight foot, fibreglass sculpture by Malvern artist and illustrator Rachel Blackwell. The decorated giraffe will now be displayed alongside 29 others through the streets and open spaces of Worcester for 10 weeks from July 9 to September 16.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Willcox said: \u201cAs a child, making a wish whilst holding my parents\u2019 hands was one of the most thrilling and special things in my life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am thrilled Rachel Blackwell has brought my design to life and I truly hope everyone discovers their inner child whilst making a wish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <a href=\"https:\/\/eveshamobserver.co.uk\/news\/wishful-toyah-proves-shes-all-art\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Evesham Observer<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artwork designed by celebrated singer, actress and Pershore resident Toyah Willcox has been used to decorate a giraffe sculpture for the Worcester Stands Tall trail. The prolific performer, whose career has spanned more than 40 years, themed her design around the idea of \u2018making a wish\u2019 \u2013 with the giraffe covered in stars, animals and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[310,1880,1883],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29037,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29035\/revisions\/29037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}