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Home > Join the Hunt > Organised hunts Our Organised Hunts Are you up for an extra challenge?   If so why not take the Big Egg Hunt one step further and enjoy an experience to remember by booking one of our exciting organised egg hunts. Gather your team and get cracking, the race is … Read more

Home > The Hunt > Final Weekend The Grand Eggstravaganza Thank You London! The final weekend of The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt was an egg-cellent success and a truly grand finale – we broke the Guinness World Records attempt for the Most Participant in an Egg Hunt! A staggering 12,773 eggy Sherlock’s uncovered the eggs … Read more

Home > Join the Hunt > Eggstra Stuff Eggstra stuff You can help break a Guinness World Record! The Big Egg Hunt is going to be big – the clue’s in the name – but we don’t just want it to be big, we want it to be staggeringly, awe-inspiringly, mind-bendingly huge. This is why … Read more

Home > The Hunt > Eggstra Stuff Eggstra stuff Guinness World Records Holder! The Big Egg Hunt has been big – staggeringly, awe-inspiringly, mind-bendingly huge. With thanks to 12,773 Egg Hunters, we have broken the Guinness World Records title for the Most entrants in an egg hunt competition! All the text messages entered into The Big … Read more

Home > The Hunt > The Egg Shop The Egg Shop Visit The Big Egg Shop at Covent Garden Piazza (opposite the Apple Store) and Selfridges and hunt down dozens of eggcellent gifts including: • Paint-Your-Own-Egg packs• i-Spy books• Oyster Wallets• Tote Bags• Tea Towels• Egg cups and eggs• Apronsand much more! See in store … Read more

Home > Join the Hunt > Auctions The Big Egg Auctions Each of the eggs in The Big Egg Hunt is a true collector’s item. They’ve been designed by some of the most inspirational creative figures and organisations in the country, and are all magnificent in their own right. Now, through two very special auctions, … Read more

Eleanor Wright is the first person to be awarded the Warrick Stafford Research Fellowship with Northumbria University (in partnership with Baltic Art Gallery) and is currently living and working in Newcastle. She completed her Fine Art Masters at the Slade School of Fine Art, following her degree at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2007.
In 2010 Eleanor was the recipient of the Duveen Travel Scholarship, which enabled her to travel to New York City and Philadelphia to undertake artistic research. In the same year she received the Kenneth Armitage Foundation Young Sculptor Prize.

Barbie Harrison has worked as an illustrator and decorator of children’s furniture for many years. She is used to painting on any surface, even having painted on eggs before, although never on one as big as this! More recently Barbie has begun to exhibit small paintings on reclaimed wood, using oil, enamel and gold leaf – her own personal icons – and using images of birds, flowers, animals and trees.
Barbie lives in rural East Sussex and takes her inspiration from the natural world. Here’s what the artist has to say about the design’s conception:
“When I heard about the Big Egg Hunt I researched Easter myths – one of the recurring and universal ones being the Easter Hare (and coincidentally I often use an image of the hare in my paintings). In past times it was thought that the hare laid eggs – in fact we now know that this came about by the habit of lapwings laying their eggs in the “form” or scrape in the ground that the hare uses as a resting place – hence the plover image.
“Hares are also associated with the spring and the moon, thus prompting me to conceive the design. On one side we see the hare at the cusp of winter – the autumn equinox- apprehensively looking up at an owl, and opposite, the spring equinox – a hare leaping over the sun , with associated images of flowers and swallows and the optimism they symbolize.
“Look carefully at the line of trees in the half-light and you will see the tiny silhouette of a running hound – a tribute to our wonderful old lurcher who died last year.” Barbie has painted furniture designs for children for many years, and wanted the imagery to be accessible to young people.

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Jan Dunning (b.1975) is a photographic artist based in London. She graduated from Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design. Best known for her pinhole photography, Dunning’s images are influenced by mythology, magic realism and fairy tale, testing the boundaries between fiction and reality, the possible and the impossible, the natural and the unnatural.
Recent exhibitions and awards include: “Perceived Realities”, London Art Fair (2013); “Construction Works”, Troika Editions, London (2012); Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Award for emerging photography (2010); “Artificial Realities”, Black and White Gallery, New York (2009); “Secrets”, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2006).