THE WORKBENCH
Welcome into the workshop where big ideas, new tools and materials of every kind come together. This is a behind-the-scenes tour of my workshops, my processes and projects straining toward completion.
MARIONETTES
Carving and engineering wooden puppets is my speciality. Here are a few standout examples, exploring the process of creating each, and lessons learned
RICK RUBIN
SWAGMAN'S LUCK
DON QUIXOTE
The largest batch I've made
Based on Banjo Patterson's Waltzing Mathilda, this was the largest single project I'd ever worked on, building eleven original marionettes for the show. It required a kookaburra, an emu, two jumbucks, a horse, a kangaroo, three troopers, the Squatter and Frank the Swagman
Sketches
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Mold making
Works in progress
I have thousands of photos of documentation, from hundreds of projects, I've built over the last two decades. Many sit in albums, seldom seen. Documentation and reference for if I ever build something similar again. Others have their own beauty rendering a signpost along a journey.
