{"id":4067,"date":"2019-09-07T19:20:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T08:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=4067"},"modified":"2019-09-07T19:20:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T08:20:17","slug":"big-scott-morrison-and-bill-shorten-puppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2019\/09\/07\/big-scott-morrison-and-bill-shorten-puppets\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten puppets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve continued to make large puppet heads of Australian politicians for Matt Armstrong. In December 2018 I finished one of Scott Morrison, who had just become Prime Minister after rolling Malcolm Turnbull.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fairly soon afterwards in March 2019 there was a call for a Bill Shorten puppet head. The life of this one was remarkably short, since Shorten’s Labor lost the election it was expected to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are now five of these – Abbott, Turnbull, Joyce, Morrison and Shorten. Canberra Museum and Gallery has currently borrowed the Abbott and Shorten puppets for display in their exhibition Activism: forces for change in Canberra<\/a>, which runs until early November. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the opening night of the exhibition, the Joyce and Turnbull puppets mingled with the crowd, and it was fun to get a photo of all four of them together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There has been a lot of interest in these puppets, and they appear in the media quite often. In September 2018 the ABC had a nice article<\/a> about them, with an accompanying video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve continued to make large puppet heads of Australian politicians for Matt Armstrong. In December 2018 I finished one of Scott Morrison, who had just become Prime Minister after rolling Malcolm Turnbull. Fairly soon afterwards in March 2019 there was a call for a Bill Shorten puppet head. The life of this one was remarkably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48,7,4,14],"tags":[24,1400,1457,1065,1371,1399,1358,1355,1365,1361,1339],"class_list":["post-4067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canberra","category-politics","category-puppetry","category-puppets","tag-australia","tag-barnaby-joyce","tag-bill-shorten","tag-giant-puppets","tag-make","tag-malcolm-turnbull","tag-politics","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets","tag-sculpture","tag-tony-abbott"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-13B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4077,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions\/4077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}