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I made a mascot. Tasmania’s AFL team doesn’t exist yet, but Rum’un the Tassie Devil does, and went live today. More than 400 hours of handwork. Thousands of strips of fur, made from donated old school uniforms from around the state. Input from the local wildlife sanctuary Bonorong on the unique physiology of the species,…
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I can’t divulge what giant character I’ve been working on for the last eight months, but in a few weeks the result goes public. The brief has been exacting. It has to represent in ways that people young and old can be proud of: to bridge biology and legend, and carry echoes of the first…
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As part of Arts on Tour’s Green Touring Online series I co-presented a session on sustainable making practices. Here’s the gist. I’ve been developing techniques for working with salvaged and low-impact materials for the last 27 years, and my work for performance has toured nationally and internationally to theatres, schools, festivals, galleries and museums. There…
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Making a show is a deeply iterative process. In the second creative development for Feathers, a room full of people thrashed out the potential and the limitations of the puppets we’ve built, and tested them against Dan Giovannoni’s boisterous script. A list of tweaks and changes emerged, some necessary for narrative or performer comfort, some…
