Following the success of Sharmanka’s new Gothic Circus exhibition at last year’s Edinburgh Festival, and more recently as part of MimeFest in London, the pieces move to the Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock. SHARMANKA (Russian for hurdy-gurdy) was founded by sculptor-mechanic Eduard Bersudsky and theatre director Tatyana Jakovskaya in St.Petersburg (Russia) in 1989. Audiences in many […]
Archives for February 2009
Spooner Valentine's Heart
Valentine’s day brings a new Paul Spooner edition of 13 hearts titled “Be Still My Blinking Heart”. Turn the handle and the heart blinks in anticipation. Paul remarks: ‘It is an opportunity to donate an organ to a loved one. The blink mechanism is a spin-off development of owl technology and to get the oak […]
Sketchbook Moment No.21
Puzzles for Pussies. Click image to enlarge.