Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in make, portfolio, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Mar 1st, 2006
Making this huge Fruit Batman character for The Fool Factory has been the thing keeping me so busy last month. The wingspan is 6-7 metres, and it is a stilt-walking character. The wings are articulated, and it has animatronic eyes and ears, but it was my brief to build the creature around those supplied elements. [...]
Posted in canberra, make, portfolio, street theatre on Nov 4th, 2005
The Fool Factory’s Rock & Roll Rascals, Big Bad Ted and Long Tall Sally rock it up during this year’s Floriade in Canberra. I made Ted’s winklepickers and Sal’s legs and shoes.
I was flipping around the channels on the TV a few minutes ago trying to find CNN. (This sounds nonchalant, but it really means beating the living daylights out of the remote to make it work). Instead, I landed up on the Information Channel - I have no idea what this usually shows, I will [...]
Posted in make, portfolio, puppetry, puppets on Aug 30th, 2005
I’ve been busy making two of those poseable wooden manikins that artists use to draw from into small puppet versions of two actors, a man and a woman. Its been fiddly, since to make the proportions right, I had change the shapes of the bodies, and the length of the limbs, which in turn means [...]
Posted in make, photographs, photography, portfolio on Aug 27th, 2005
My husband’s grandfather had a wide notion of what might be fixed with paint, and it got more extensive as he got older, until he was happily fixing stains in upholstery and carpets with dabs of paint. I’ve been thinking about him today, because I have been spraypainting a border pattern onto a large piece [...]
Posted in craft, make, materials, portfolio, sculpture on Jul 14th, 2005
Having seen Ronnie Burkett’s amazing Tinka’s New Dress in its last season at the Melbourne Festival in 2002, and heard him speak so inspiringly at the Puppetry Summit there at the same time, I was interested to see Burkett’s article on paper mache (via Puppetry News and Views).
The article talks about recipes for making [...]
Posted in craft, make, mask, materials, portfolio on Jun 30th, 2005
Dave Riley is a mask-maker, puppeteer and playwright based in Brisbane. His Mask Studio tutorials have been of great help to me a number of times - thanks Dave! There are two mask tutorials:
Easy mask making using cheap plastic originals (creating a serviceable neutral mask from a cheap plastic model, and then making it into [...]
After making a couple of recycled creatures a few months ago, I’ve become a bit obsessed with the idea, and have been haunting the local op shops and trash and treasure markets, looking for suitably interesting bags and belts. I’ve now got far more than I have had time to make up! One side effect [...]
Posted in make, portfolio, puppetry, puppets, theatre on Jun 21st, 2005
The bunraku-style puppets I was working on are for production called ‘See Beneath’, being presented by Hidden Corners Theatre, Canberra’s award-winning theatre company of young carers. This is how the puppets turned out:
‘See Beneath’ is a play by and about young people dealing with disability in their families, directed by Robin Davidson and barb barnett, [...]