A picture drawn by local celebrities Kasey and Karena Bird will be auctioned to help raise money in the 2015 ANZ Daffodil Day Art Auction.
Prime Minister John Key, teen golfing sensation Lydia Ko, ex-Black Cap Dion Nash, comedienne Urzila Carlson and 2014 MasterChef winners the Bird sisters are among30 talented Kiwis who have donated artworks to help raise awareness of the Cancer Society's Daffodil Day this year.
The Birds' work, Raukura, drawn with pen on paper, is an intricate depiction of two feathers facing each other.
Karena and Kasey Bird, of MasterChef fame, produced this drawing for the auction. Photo / Supplied
"Feathers are a symbol of spiritual, physical and communal harmony and unity in Maori culture," said Karena Bird.
"We have experienced cancer in our whanau and we were honoured to be asked to help this amazing charity."
ANZ chief financial officer Antonia Watson said well-known Kiwis were asked to show their artistic side for Daffodil Day last year and the results were amazing. It was such a success that they decided to make it an annual event.
The brief for the celebrity artists was simple: there were no rules, she said.
They were asked to create an artwork which could be auctioned; it could be a sketch, painting, pastel, collage, abstract or even a poem or verse.
Other personalities to create works for the auction included Colin Mathura-Jeffree, Sacha McNeil, Toni Street, top chef Michael Meredith, Sir Bob Harvey and Labour Party leader Andrew Little.
The framed artworks will be available for auction on Trade Me from this morning to August 26, with 100 per cent of the proceeds going to the Cancer Society.
The celebrities' artwork will also be on display in Ponsonby from tomorrow until August 26.
