Flocking to the Royal Highland Show?

There’s no pulling the wool over our eyes with this!
A delightfully colourful collection of designer sheep sculptures will tour across Scotland this Spring – and people are flocking to see them.

The trail of 35 arty decorated sheep is promoting the return of the Golden Shears World Sheep Shearing and Wool Handling Championships to the Royal Highland Show, for the first time in 20 years.

The ‘Flock to the Show’ tour, which got under way earlier this week, has been set up by The Royal Highland & Agricultural Society of Scotland (RHASS), ahead of the Show in June.

Whilst promoting the Championships, the RHASS also say the tour will ‘raise awareness of different causes related to farming, including regenerative agriculture, rural isolation and climate change’.

The 35 sheep have been designed and hand painted by different artists from all corners of the UK; and each has their own character and back story.

Our personal favourites are ‘Sheep will Rock Ewe’, Davy Baaa-wie, and John O’Groats to Lambs End.

Following the tour, the flock shall return to the Royal Highland Show and will then be auctioned at a gala dinner in September to raise funds that will support the RHASS’s Bicentennial Fund.

Find out more about the designer flock here

The Royal Highland Show takes place June 22-25. It is expected that over 30 countries will be represented in 2023 Golden Shears Sheep Shearing & Woolhandling World Championships.