We have been entertaining and inspiring visitors & makers with our collection of automata since 1981. Now based in Hastings, UK we have exhibitions all over the world.
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The Fourteen Ball Toy Company are producing this early Anubis piece from 1982, which Paul Spooner made while CMT was still in Cornwall. This is a rare opportunity to add…
Simon Tait’s Mews – No.3 If you ask Paul Spooner to fit a project brief don’t expect anything, because whatever you expect isn’t going to happen. What you can be…
Moooving Sculptures by Johnny White and Amanda Wray. Artists Johnny White (Ride of Life veteran) and Amanda Wray have created a fantastic new exhibition currently at Scarborough Art Gallery The…
Simon Tait’s Mews – No.2 Here’s an interesting work of art to mews upon. It’s a sculpture by the eminent French artist Jean Tinguely and he called it Meta-Matic. It…
If you are in the UK this summer it is worth visiting San Francisco based artist Bernie Lubell’s ‘A Theory of Entanglement’ exhibition which opened at FACT, Liverpool, last month.…
Mechanics Alive!! is now open at the Scotland Street School Museum in Glasgow. The exhibition is an essential on your itinerary if you are in Scotland over the summer. The…
We are delighted to offer some pieces from a new artist, Fi Henshall, a sculpture graduate from Falmouth College of Arts in Cornwall. Fi was inspired by childhood visits to…