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{{Short description|Public arts trail}}
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| image              = Gromit Unleashed 2 logo.jpeg
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| alt                = Logo of Gromit Unleashed 2, featuring Wallace, Gromt and Feathers McGraw, as well as the dates '2 July - 2 September', which was the dates of the sculpture trail. 
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| subject            = [[Gromit]] <br /> 
[[List of Wallace and Gromit characters#Wallace|Wallace]] <br /> 
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| city               = [[Bristol]] and surrounding areas
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| owner              = [[Bristol Royal Hospital for Children#Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal|Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal]]  and [[Aardman Animations]]
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| preceded_by        =  ''[[Gromit Unleashed]]'' (2013) <br/> ''[[Shaun in the City]]'' (2015)
| followed_by        = ''Wallace And Gromit: The Grand Adventure''
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| website            =   {{URL|www.gromitunleashed.org.uk}} 
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'''Gromit Unleashed 2''' was a public arts trail in [[Bristol]], England. The trail featured 67 giant sculptures designed by high-profile artists, designers, innovators and local talent. Sculptures are positioned in high footfall and iconic locations around Bristol and the surrounding area from 2 July to 2 September 2018.<ref name=murray>{{cite web|last1=Murray|first1=Robin|title=Aardman reveals plans for Gromit Unleashed 2 Bristol trail in 2018 - and he's bringing friends|url=https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/aardman-reveals-plans-gromit-unleashed-788426|website=Bristol Post|date=16 November 2017|accessdate=2018-01-31}}</ref>  A sequel to [[Gromit Unleashed]] in 2013, the trail featured statues of [[Wallace and Gromit#Wallace|Wallace]] on a life-size bench, [[Gromit]], and [[List of Wallace and Gromit characters#Feathers McGraw|Feathers McGraw]].<ref name=murray /> On  the 23rd of August 2023 a fourth trail was announced, the trail in Bristol will run in 2025.<ref> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-66581413</ref>

The trail raised funds for the [[Bristol Royal Hospital for Children]] and [[St Michael's Hospital, Bristol|St. Michael's Hospital's]] Special Care Baby unit.<ref>{{cite web|title=2018 trail revealed!|url=https://www.gromitunleashed.org.uk/news/2018-trail-revealed|website=Gromit Unleashed website|accessdate=2018-01-31}}</ref>

==Background==
=== Gromit ===
{{see also|List of Wallace and Gromit characters}}

Gromit is a dog belonging to an eccentric inventor, [[Wallace and Gromit#Wallace|Wallace]], in a series of [[claymation]] films produced by [[Aardman Animations]], based in [[Spike Island, Bristol]]. Three of the films in the [[Wallace and Gromit|''Wallace and Gromit'' film series]] have won Academy Awards: ''[[The Wrong Trousers]]'',<ref name=Osc01>{{cite web | title=The 66th academy Awards (1994) Nominees and winners|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1994|accessdate=29 July 2013|publisher=The academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|date=21 March 1994}}</ref> ''[[A Close Shave]]''<ref name=Osc02>{{cite web|title=The 68th Academy Awards (1996) Nominees and Winners|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1996|accessdate=29 July 2013|publisher=The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|date=25 March 1996}}</ref> and ''[[Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit]]''.<ref name=Osc03>{{cite web|title=The 78th Academy Awards (2006) Nominees and Winners|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2006|accessdate=29 July 2013|publisher=The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|date=5 March 2006}}</ref>

=== Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal ===
The aim of Gromit Unleashed was to fundraise for Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal. Founded in 1995, the charity raises funds for paediatric medical equipment at the [[Bristol Royal Hospital for Children]] and [[St Michael's Hospital, Bristol|St. Michael's Hospital]]. In collaboration with Aardman, it uses the characters Wallace and Gromit as mascots for the charity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.grandappeal.org.uk/our-charity/about-us|title=About Us|website=Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal|access-date=2018-03-07}}</ref>

===Previous trails===
Gromit Unleashed 2 is a sequel to [[Gromit Unleashed]] that ran between 1 July and 8 September 2013 in Bristol, featuring 80 Gromit sculptures and raising £2.3 million for the Grand Appeal.<ref>{{cite news |title=Gromit statues auction raises £2.3m for Bristol Children's Hospital |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-24394696 |access-date=17 December 2022 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=2013-10-04}}</ref>  The [[Shaun in the City]] trail featuring 120 sculptures of [[Shaun the Sheep]] were distributed between Bristol and London in 2015 and raised £1,087,900  for the charity. Following their respective successes in raising funds for the Grand Appeal, Gromit Unleashed 2 was announced in 2017.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Murray |first1=Robin |title=Aardman reveals plans for Gromit Unleashed 2 Bristol trail in 2018 - and he's bringing friends |url=https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/aardman-reveals-plans-gromit-unleashed-788426 |access-date=17 December 2022 |publisher=[[Bristol Post]] |date=2017-11-17}}</ref>
==List of sculptures==
===Gromit===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Name!!Original Trail Location!!Designer!!Sponsor!!Sale price
|-
||A Grand Gromplication{{ref|tb}}||[[Bristol Museum and Art Gallery|Bristol Museum]]||[[Bristol University#Faculty of Engineering|Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol]]||[[University of Bristol]]|| - 
|-
||Alex the Lion ||[[M Shed]]||[[DreamWorks Animation|DreamWorks]]||[[Creditcall]]||£18,000
|-
||Amazing Grace||[[Chipping Sodbury]] High Street||{{sortname|Tim|Sutcliffe}}||Chipping Sodbury Chamber of Commerce||£17,000
|-
||Bristol in Bloom||[[St Mary Redcliffe]]||{{sortname|Ella|Masters}}||Immediate Media Co.||£13,500
|-
||Bristol's Own||[[Queen Square, Bristol|Queen Square]]||{{sortname|Susan|Webber|Susan Webber (artist)}}||Barcan+Kirby||£22,000
|-
||Boss||Showcase Cinema De Lux, [[Cabot Circus]]||{{sortname|Wes|Anderson}}||Showcase Cinema De Lux||£16,000
|-
||Caractacus Paws||[[The Galleries, Bristol|The Galleries]]||[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]] team at [[Eon Productions]]||The Galleries||£20,000
|-
||Champion||Badminton Road, [[Downend, South Gloucestershire|Downend]]||{{sortname|Mike|Ogden}}||Downend and Bromley Heath Parish Council||£16,000
|-
||Cracking Build Gromit!||[[Cabot Circus]]||[[The Lego Group|Lego]]||Cabot Circus||£22,000
|-
||Cubby||Avon Valley Adventure and Wildlife Park||Peskimo||Avon Valley Adventure and Wildlife Park||£11,000
|-
||Cupid||Woodlands Lane, [[Bradley Stoke]]||Blossom & Brush||Dunkley's Chartered Accountants||£15,000
|-
||Deerest Gromit||[[University of the West of England, Bristol#Bower Ashton Studios|Bower Ashton campus]], [[UWE|University of the West of England]]||Hend Esmat and Lamiaa Diab||UWE Bristol||£15,000
|- 
||Dias de los Perros||[[Arnos Vale Cemetery]]||{{sortname|Gavin|Strange}}||Briz-Graphics||£14,000
|- 
||Draco||Kings Chase shopping centre, [[Kingswood, South Gloucestershire|Kingswood]]||The Knitted Pea||Evan's and Partners||£13,000
|-
||Ferne||The Horsefair||{{sortname|Natalie|Guy}}||[[FirstGroup|First Bus]]||£26,000
|-
||Giggles||[[Grand Pier, Weston-super-Mare|Grand Pier]], [[Weston-super-Mare]]||{{sortname|Emily|Golden}}||Grand Pier||£19,000
|-
||Gromit||[[Temple Quay]]||[[Nick Park]]||Canada Life Group Insurance||£42,000
|-
||Gromit P. Sullivan (Sulley)||Gromit Unleashed shop, [[The Mall at Cribbs Causeway]] ||{{sortname|Peter|Docter}} (Pixar Studios)||LDC||£22,000
|-
||Gromitronic{{ref|tb}}||[[M Shed]]||[[Renishaw plc|Renishaw]]||[[Renishaw plc|Renishaw]]|| - 
|-
||Gromjet{{ref|tb}}||[[Aerospace Bristol]]||[[Rolls-Royce]]||[[Rolls-Royce]]||£25,000
|-
||Honeydew||[[Arnolfini, Bristol|Arnolfini]]||{{sortname|Tim|Sutcliffe}}||[[The Yogscast]]||£11,000
|-
||Honeysuckle Rose||St Mary Centre, [[Thornbury, Gloucestershire|Thornbury]]||{{sortname|Sarah-Jane|Grace}}||Thornbury Chamber of Commerce||£16,000 
|-
||Marshall||[[Chew Valley Lake]]||[[PAW Patrol]]||[[Bristol Water]]||£16,500
|-
||Merry-go-Gromit||Puxton Park||{{sortname|Emily|Golden}}||Puxton Park||£12,000
|-
||Oceans 1: Deep Blue{{ref|tb}}||[[We The Curious]]||[[Bristol University#Faculty of Engineering|Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol]]||[[Airbus]]|| - 
|- 
||Oceans 2: Yellow Sub{{ref|tb}}||[[M Shed]]||[[Bristol University#Faculty of Engineering|Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol]]||[[Airbus]]|| - 
|- 
||Peek a Boo!||[[Blaise Castle Estate]]||{{sortname|Mandy|Sutcliffe}}||[[Yankee Candle]]||£13,000
|- 
||Pickles McPrickles||Greenway Centre, [[Southmead]]||{{sortname|Simon|Tozer}}||[[YTL Corporation|YTL Developments]]||£15,000
|-
||Rockin' Robin||[[Ashton Gate Stadium]]||{{sortname|Hannah|Bone}}||Ashton Gate Stadium||£16,000
|-
||Splash!||St Mark's Road, [[Easton, Bristol|Easton]]||Cheba||Destination Bristol||£19,000
|-
||Sprinkles||[[Boston Tea Party (café chain)|Boston Tea Party]], [[Gloucester Road, Bristol|Gloucester Road]]||{{sortname|Tom|Hovey}}||Arthur David Food with Service Ltd.||£12,500
|-
||Stellar||[[Park Street, Bristol|Park Street]]||{{sortname|Laura|Hallett}}||Cass Art||£30,000
|-
||Swallows and Amazons||Willow Brook Centre, [[Bradley Stoke]]||[[StudioCanal]]||Willow Brook Centre||£18,000
|-
||The Bristol Hound||[[Clifton Suspension Bridge]] viewpoint, Sion Hill||{{sortname|Zoe|Power}}||[[Grant Thornton LLP]]||£17,000
|- 
||The Brystal Maze||Near [[South Bristol Community Hospital]]||[[Richard Ayoade]] and [[The Crystal Maze]] producers||[[The Bottle Yard Studios]]||£15,500
|-
||The Hound of Music||[[Gardiner Haskins]], Bristol||{{sortname|Sarah|Matthews|nolink=1}}||Gardiner Haskins||£15,500
|-
||The Howl||[[Royal West of England Academy]]||{{sortname|Tim|Sutcliffe}}||Redrock Consulting Ltd.||£20,000
|-
||ThermoGromit{{ref|tb}}||[[Royal Fort Gardens]]||{{sortname|Kacper|Sopol}} and {{sortname|Timmy|Wilmott}}||[[University of Bristol]]||£16,000
|-
||Toto||Flaxpits Lane, [[Winterbourne, Gloucestershire|Winterbourne]]||{{sortname|Jenny|Urquhart}}||AJ Homes||£18,000
|-
||Tropi-canis||[[House of Fraser]], [[Cabot Circus]]||{{sortname|Maria|Burns}}||House of Fraser||''Raffled''{{#tag:ref|The ‘Tropi-canis’ statue was sold via a [[raffle]], rather than through auction. Tickets costed £2.50 each, and were available to residents of [[Great Britain]] aged 16 and over.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Grand Appeal, Gromit Unleashed 2 Sculpture Raffle 2018 – Win Tropi-canis! Terms and Conditions |url=https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0659/3329/files/GU2_Tropicanis_Raffle_Ts_Cs.pdf |website=Shopify.com |publisher=The Grand Appeal |accessdate=22 October 2020}}</ref>

The winner was Chris from [[Clevedon]], who was selected using a [[random number generator]].<ref>{{cite web |title=TROPI-CANIS RAFFLE WINNER REVEALED! |url=https://www.grandappeal.org.uk/latest-news/tropi-canis-raffle-winner-revealed/ |website=The Grand Appeal |accessdate=22 October 2020}}</ref>|group=Note}}
|-
||Wild at Heart||[[Ashton Court]]||{{sortname|Liza|Donoghue}}||ETEX Building Performance Ltd.||£14,000
|}

===Wallace===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Name!!Original Trail Location!!Designer!!Sponsor!!Sale price
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||A Grand Tribute||[[Millennium Square, Bristol|Millennium Square]]||{{sortname|Nick|Park|}}||We The Curious||£55,000
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||George||[[The Downs, Bristol|The Downs]]||{{sortname|Helen|Javes}}||SLX||£20,000
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||Gnome Sweet Gnome||[[College Green, Bristol|College Green]]||{{sortname|Katie|Wallis}}||Natracare||£20,000
|-
||Long John Wallace||Cascade Steps, [[The Centre, Bristol|The Centre]]||{{sortname|Elaine|Carr}}||VWV||£20,000
|-
||Rocket Man||[[Bristol Royal Hospital for Children]]||{{sortname|Elaine|Carr}}||CAMB Machine Knives International Ltd.||£32,000
|-
||Space Oddi-tea||Wapping Wharf, [[Spike Island, Bristol|Spike Island]]||{{sortname|Carys|Ink}}||Wapping Wharf||£24,000
|-
||Spock||[[The Mall at Cribbs Causeway]]||[[Star Trek]]||The Mall at Cribbs Causeway||£17,000
|-
||The Wallace Collection||Anchor Road, Bristol||Rachel Bennett||[[Hargreaves Lansdown]]||£17,000
|-
||The Wensleydale Kid||[[Clifton Observatory]]||{{sortname|Paula|Bowles}}||Clifton Observatory||£22,000
|-
||Wallace||[[Bristol Cenotaph]]||[[Nick Park]]||Bristol City Centre BID||£31,000
|-
||Wallace in Wonderland||Mall Gardens, [[Clifton, Bristol|Clifton]]||{{sortname|Beth|Waters}}||BID Clifton Village||£40,000
|- 
||Wallambard||Near [[SS Great Britain]]||{{sortname|Tim|Miness}}||Womble Bond Dickinson||£55,000
|}

===Feathers McGraw===

{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Name!!Original Trail Location!!Designer!!Sponsor!!Sale price
|-
||Banana-arm-a||North Street, [[Bedminster, Bristol|Bedminster]]||Katie Wallis||Jeremy Gumbley||£13,000
|- 
||Fangs McGraw||Stanfords, [[Corn Street, Bristol|Corn Street]]||Ruth Broadway||[[Stanfords]]||£15,000
|- 
||Feathers McGraw||Outside [[Wills Memorial Building]]||[[Nick Park]]||[[Ernst & Young|EY]]||£30,000
|- 
||Feathers Macaw||Outside [[Victoria Rooms, Bristol|Victoria Rooms]]||Amy Timms||Ashfords||£16,000
|-
||Feathertron 3000||Bristol Energy Hub||Jam Factory & Jimmy 2 Eggs||[[Bristol Energy]]||£15,000
|-
||Fromage McGraw||[[Quakers Friars]]||[[Peter Lord]]||Bluefin Professions||£15,000
|- 
||Game of Cones||[[Bristol Temple Meads railway station]]||Rachel Bennett||[[Burges Salmon]] ||£17,000 
|-
||In-cog-nito||[[The Mall at Cribbs Causeway]]||Amalgam||Amalgam||£17,000
|-
||Light as a Feather||[[Clifton Suspension Bridge]]||Josh & Aimee Williams||[[Osborne Clarke]]||£20,500
|-
||Oh Bollards!||[[Aardman Animations]] studios||Merlin Crossingham||[[Aardman Animations]]||£22,000
|-
||One in a Minion||[[Marriott Hotels & Resorts|Bristol Marriott Hotel City Centre]]||Illumination||[[Marriott Hotels & Resorts|Bristol Marriott Hotel City Centre]]||£19,000
|-
||Plooming Marvellous||[[Hartcliffe]] Community Farm Park||Amy Timms||[[Bristol Post]]||£19,000
|-
||Prima Featherina||[[Marriott Hotels & Resorts|Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel]]||Ruth Broadway||[[Marriott Hotels & Resorts|Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel]]||£14,000
|-
||The Emperor||The Podium, [[Broadmead]]||Natalie Guy||John James Bristol Foundation||£38,000
|}

==Footnotes==
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{{Note|tb}}'Trailblazer' interactive sculptures<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.grandappeal.org.uk/latest-news/gromit-unleashed-2-trailblazer-reveal/|title=Gromit Unleashed 2 Trailblazer Reveal!|date=11 June 2018}}</ref>

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