- Year: 2022 – present
- Total participants: ±30 (first contribution Peter Snijders, Helga van Leur)
- Materials: acrylic paint on canvas in gold black frame
- Size: 200 x 160 x 5 cm (78,7 x 63 x 1,9 in)
- Category: unique
- Location: Galerie Dennie Boxem Zwolle
- Price: highest bidder (50% of the proceeds will directly go to the RRF)
The Reef Restoration Painting is an international collaboration between Dennie Boxem and the Reef Restoration Foundation. The RRF grows and re-plants coral to regenerate damaged high-value coral reefs.
“Painting one coral in Zwolle, The Netherlands, means planting one coral in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.”
Dennie Boxem
Painting a coral costs €31,96 ($50,- AUD) and will directly go to the RRF, who will plant your coral. Every participant gets a certificate of their own piece of coral in their email.
This way, through art, we can positively contribute to riffs on the other side of the world. And this is necessary, since they are in a critical state with our oceans warming up, while the coral riffs play an essential role being the breeding grounds of most our planets oceanic ecosystems.
“We fully support and take part in this, because in Zwolle we care about our world and our nature.”
Peter Snijders, Mayor of Zwolle.
The artwork was released on the 10th of October 2022, the Dutch National Day of Sustainability. The group first participants are:
- Peter Snijders; Mayor of Zwolle.
- Emmely Lefevre; transition-strategist, speaker, innovator.
- Helga van Leur; meteorologist RTL4, speaker, climate activist.
- Ruud Koornstra; SDG7-coördinator, sustainable innovator and entrepreneur.
The RRF is supported by scientist from James Cook University’s TropWATER and Reef Ecologic.
