On Monday a friend showed us a few sites around Perth. This was a decorative metal plate in the aerial walkway at King’s Park that took my fancy. I wished I had paper and a crayon so that I could have done a rubbing of it! A lot of the paths around the Park were […]
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Cool cuttlefish and blenny puppets
Posted in craft, creatures, design, make, puppetry, puppets on Aug 15th, 2007
Raggy Rat has made a couple of beautiful marine-themed puppets for Portland’s Seafest: a cuttlefish and a tompot blenny.
There are some great photos and commentary on the making process here. I love the mixing of different types of fabric, and the wool in particular reminds me of Mimi’s use of wools. I’m looking forward to […]
There are a lot of monsters out there on the web, and I tend to be pretty selective about which I like. Some of Erin Currie’s Cursters I like a lot, particularly the ornate ones, like this or this, or this or this. Erin has an Etsy shop, too.
I hadn’t heard of munnys before […]
I once had an idea to make colour swatches from Australian landscapes for people to use when designing webpages. My main site Spirits Dancing dates from that time; it’s sorely in need of updating in other ways, but I still like the colours, which were sourced from a eucalyptus tree. So I was interested to […]
The Model Family
Posted in art, design, sculpture, visual art on May 15th, 2007
A 1956 family in model aeroplane kit form, Guy Bottroff’s cool sculpture The Model Family, at the Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition in Adelaide this last March. A few more photos here.
FantiSea: Giant sea creatures in Esperance
Posted in creatures, design, make, materials, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Feb 28th, 2007
(Cool festival image by Haylie Michelle)
Over in Western Australia, designer and maker Bryan Woltjen and animateur Karen Hethey have been engaged for the last few months on the huge task of designing and building 8 giant puppet sea creatures for FantiSea, which will be held on 22 March as part of the Esperance Festival […]
The Moth Tree opens tomorrow night
Posted in canberra, design, illustration, make, portfolio, theatre on Dec 4th, 2006
Over the last while I have been involved in designing and making the set, costumes and puppets for Canberra Youth Theatre’s production, The Moth Tree: An Awesome Adventure.
The Moth Tree is a quest story set in a distant place, in a quiet part
of the world, where the ancient and beautiful Algoma City lies. Since
the […]
My third project for Floriade was making a giant model flower in cross-section, to be the central display in CSIRO’s Division of Plant Industry’s information tent. I really enjoyed making this, too. Some projects go really easily and this was one of those!
The petals were the main challenge, but I decided pretty quickly to use […]
Espresso coffee hats
Posted in craft, design, fun, make, materials, performance art, portfolio, street theatre, video on Oct 21st, 2006
Making these fun hats was another of my Floriade projects. I enjoyed making them and was really happy with how they turned out. They were made for the performance group The Bunch of Posers, who in this guise are called Acappellacino.
To make them I started out by making the cup shape upside down, with a […]
Warehouse Circus: Carnivale Puppet Parade at Floriade
Posted in canberra, design, portfolio, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Oct 18th, 2006
Over the last few months most of my time has been taken up with a number of projects to do with Floriade, Canberra’s month-long annual spring flower festival, which finished last weekend. My biggest scale project was taking workshops with a group of kids from the Warehouse Circus, collaboratively designing and helping them to […]