We are delighted to announce the launch of Paul Spooner’s Virtual Exhibition today. Paul Spooner was 60 earlier this year, and we are celebrating with this new exhibition of pieces he has made during the year. During your visit you will see videos, photos and drawings of the pieces. You can also eavesdrop on some […]
'Hungry for Love' in Chicago
Our USA touring exhibition opened at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry earlier this month. This Paul Spooner piece, ‘Hungry for Love’ from the Fourteen Ball Toy collection is the most complicated piece in the show, as you can see from Paul’s original sketch. The waitress walks. The cart rolls. The sailor moves his […]
New Kinetica Exhibition – London
Kinetica have a new exhibition featuring 10 UK and International artists who are experimenting with evolution, hybridisation and the infiltration of technology. The artworks vivify inanimate materials with energatic vitality and are a comment on the relationship between our technologically enhanced society and the natural world. UK artists include Tim Lewis, Tom Wilkinson and Jim […]
Tinkering with PIE
Over the past 10 years we have worked regularly with Mike Petrich and Karen Wilkinson from the Exploratorium, in San Francisco. Mike and Karen have enormous energy, and a unique capability for making things happen in their tinkering workshops. Some of our favourites have been the ‘Sound Automata’ workshops where participants build sound automata and […]
Springs Sprockets & Pulleys
Springs Sprockets & Pulleys: The Mechanical Sculptures of Steve Gerberich, Waterloo Center, Iowa, USA until January 2009. We are great fans of Steve Gerberich and his work, so if you are in Iowa before the end of the year a visit to this exhibition is highly recommended. There is also a great program of workshops […]