Paws For Purpose Art Trail and Online

Painted Guide Dogs have taken up residence online and in shops, restaurants, and shopping malls in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland as part of the Paws for Purpose interactive art exhibition and auction to raise funds and awareness for Blind Low Vision NZ Guide Dog Services. The Puppy Dog Trail is free for all to view, and those not in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland can participate in the online bidding, before the final auction on 23 March at Park Hyatt.
Around 40 artists from across Aotearoa, including Dick Frizzell, Ian Mune, Tim Christie, Shane Walker, Anna Leyland, Francis Hooper, Dame Denise L’Estrange-Corbet have collaborated with Blind Low Vision NZ to help raise funds to have more guides dogs. Guide dogs help support people who are blind, deafblind, or have low vision, to be independent and live life without limits. The artists’ brief was simply to give a new leash on life to the old Blind Low Vision NZ Donations Dogs!

Blind Low Vision NZ’s Guide Dog Puppy Appeal March 2023 will raise money to build a new and fit for purpose kennel for guide dogs in training. Blind Low Vision NZ is the only organisation who train and breed guide dogs for New Zealanders who are blind, deafblind, or have low vision.