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Dundee Rep’s ‘Make-A-Wish’ Exhibition
Supports ‘Fairy Box’

Issued 29 November 2005.

Over the last two years, a global network of fairy artists have provided a life-line of support and encouragement to ten-year-old Aimee Butler, from Dundee, as she has travelled an often times uncertain and rocky road, living with leukaemia.

Now Dundonians and visitors to Dundee Rep Theatre in Tay Square will, over the festive season and into the new year, have an opportunity to see for themselves just how the richness and diversity of this new movement in fairy art has earned its place as a 21st century renaissance of the magical art form.

The exhibition showcases some 30 artists’ prints from Japan, America, Canada, and the United Kingdom, including new works inspired by Aimee’s courage and love of the fairy world, and some original art works personally gifted to Aimee on her long road to recovery.

“Make-A-Wish” is like a who’s who in the international fairy art world, with many of the prints counter-signed by the artists themselves - including Linda Ravenscroft, Myrea Petitt, and Marc Potts from the UK, Amy Brown and Linda Biggs from America, Frances Tyrell from Canada, RyuichiTakeuchi from Japan, and Maxine Gadd and Selenica Fenech from Austrailia.

The artists have donated their work in Aimee’s name to help support the Fairy Box campaign that Aimee and her mum Rosie started earlier this year as the youngster underwent treatment at Yorkhill children’s Hospital.

Three Fairy Boxes are now firmly established in Aberdeen, Glasgow, and Dundee, to help lift the spirits of children who are ill in hospital, and the hope is to establish a Fairy Box in every children’s ward in Scotland.

Rosie said: “We are very grateful to Dundee rep for this support on this exhibition. It is an honour to help showcase this new world of fairy art. These artists and their wonderful images - from cat fairies, good fairies, and dark fairies, and protector fairies like the breast cancer fairy and the leukaemia fairy - have been a part of Aimee’s life for the past two years. Through their regular contact with Aimee, we have come to know many of them as our friends. We hope visitors to Make-A-Wish will enjoy them as much as we do and that those that are for sale will continue to weave their magic spell in their new homes - just as they have done for Aimee”

Dundee Rep is bringing yet more support to the Fairy Box campaign by inviting patrons to donate a gift of a new toy, book, game, cd etc to help to keep the three resident Fairy Boxes full to the brim.

More details of the Fairy Box can be found at www.fairybox.org. Anyone wishing to buy fairy art from the exhibition can also contact Rosie Butler on tel: 01382 225829.