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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.

Workbench: List

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

A most elaborate puppet

Showtime Networks contacted me to design and build a likeness of the famous music producer for a documentary series titled Shangri-La, centered around the man and his mythical studio in Malibu

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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

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The model moving forward

This marionette served as the model for a series of tutorial build videos and my marionette building manual. It's the basis for resin castings which will be the marionette kits sent to hobbyist marionette builders across the globe

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Sketches

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Mold making

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Workbench: Work

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.

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