Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in UNIMA, creatures, mask, performance art, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Apr 7th, 2008
A mindblowing day at the puppet carnival: see my Flickr photoset for heaps more photos; I’ve just chosen a few here. Also Naomi and Gary have more, too, each a different take :). As far as I can see its just the three of us blogging from Unima 2008.
Cheryl Linnaker’s Yawaru gecko
Joan Baixas’ masterclass present […]
Posted in UNIMA, creatures, performance art, puppetry, puppets, street art, street theatre, theatre on Apr 4th, 2008
I’m spending the first few days here at the in Perth at the 20th UNIMA World Puppetry Festival doing the master class Making Ningyo-Joruri, given by Nori Sawa. I’m really enjoying it. Nori says his workshop usually takes a week, so we are working hard to fit it in in 3 1/2 long days. […]
Posted in animation, performance art, puppetry, puppets, video on Apr 25th, 2007
(photo credit: David Fletcher)
Radio National’s Bush Telegraph has audio of their April 23rd interview with Jillian Pearce (fast forward to the 36 minute mark). Jillian is a performance artist living in Natimuk, the small town at the foot of rock-climbing mecca, Mt Arapiles, in rural Victoria. Jillian and her performing arts company, Y Space, […]
Posted in canberra, performance art, street theatre on Nov 14th, 2006
The Fool Factory’s Sunflower gives a unusually taciturn glance at the Walk against Warming a couple of weekends ago. I also love this one of the Rat Patrol at Cutflat.
I’m missing blogging! Heaps of things to blog about and no time to do it, is the story. I figure as far as making work […]
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 […]
Posted in canberra, performance art, politics, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Oct 16th, 2004
Floriade has been on for the last month in Canberra, and tomorrow is the last day. I went in last weekend hoping to see the Old Parliament House Big Heads. These are much-larger-than-life-sized body-suit puppets of parliamentarians from days gone by. Their usual home is Old Parliament House, which is now a parliamentary museum, where […]