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 […]
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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 […]
Smile on your bother: OneWebDay
Posted in make, portfolio, puppetry, puppets, sculpture, technology on Aug 18th, 2006
OneWebDay, 22 September, is a global celebration of online life. I was hoping to make a couple of big puppets or sculptures for the day, but I have three current work projects that all culminate at exactly that time, so I am not sure if I will get anything together in time to use offline […]
Heh. Isn’t it cool as a negative image?
Here are some photos of the mainframe computer suit I made this past week. It was for the theatre group A Bunch of Posers, for a performance at an event that marked the closing down of the Australian Bureau of Statistics mainframe computer. The waistcoat and back are my favourites.
I just love sculpting clay and papermache, my very favourite work processes.
Some large pink snake-skin shoes I made recently for Jigsaw Theatre Company’s production Little Brother Big Sister, design by Imogen Keen. I had fun with the curly thing at the back.
Leafcutter ant
Posted in make, photographs, portfolio on Mar 19th, 2006
I’m getting quite fond of this little leafcutter ant I made recently. (It’s only about 15 cm long). I might get to make some big ones later this year.
Plasticine model
Posted in make, portfolio, puppetry, puppets on Mar 6th, 2006
Sally was interested in the plasticine model I made of the fruitbat, so I have added this photo to the set. You can click to see it enlarged in different sizes. The yellow pins mark the performer’s eyes, and the black spot on the leg, their feet.
Meanwhile, Amy has given me Best Flying Rodent in […]