After a summer of Jersey residents "going bananas" for the #GoWildGorillas trail, 44 Silverback sculptures were auctioned off this month at the Grand Gorilla Auction.
The highest bid of the evening went to the Deloitte-sponsored sculpture, The Space Between Us, at a world record-breaking £72,000 – the highest ever recorded for a Wild In Art statue.
The Grand Gorilla Auction raised a grand total of £1,146,500, with all proceeds helping to build Jersey Zoo’s gorilla family a new indoor home.
The Space Between Us, also known as ‘Vincent’, was the creation of Andy Coutanche. Mr Coutanche used the c...
