Theatre props manufactured for Third World Bun Fight. These props were used in Brett Bailey’s controversial adaptations of the classical plays Medeia and Macbeth that have gone on world tours.
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Baboon and Guineafowl
These creatures were regular visitors around the suburb where I grew up in Windhoek/Namibia and as a child one tends to personify animals. Over the years I have made little birthday presents to family members conveying some of these humanistic character traits that I could see in these creatures. I do love the humour and …
Ribena Commercial
Another collaboration with Shy the Sun and Black Ginger. I was set designer on this fun commercial for which we built an idyllic English countryside in forced perspective miniatures to create the illusion of rolling hills all the way to the horizon. Watch it here.
Flying Dutchman Opera
Theatre Prop for the Opera of ‘Flying Dutchman’ produced by the Richard Wagner Society SA. 1m length- foam, paper, wood, rope, LED lights, 2011.
Theatre Play ‘Benchmarks’
I designed and fabricated all the character face masks for the silent theatre piece ‘Benchmarks‘- an FTH:K (listen with your eyes) production which premiered at the Grahamstown Art Festival in 2011. Benchmarks won the Handspring Puppetry Awards at the Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Theatre Festival 2011 for ‘The Best Puppet Manipulation’ …
Theatre Play ‘Wombtide’
I built the Bunraku Puppet which was the lead role in ‘Womb Tide’ an FTH:K (listen with your eyes) theatre production , 2010.
Mnet Commercials
First ever 3D stereoscopic commercial shot in South Africa, adapted for cinema and won a Loeries Award for Animation in 2011. Collaboration with Shy the Sun and Black Ginger. Our small team fabricated and built the various miniature environments for the two commercial spots ‘Firefly’ and ‘Ladybug’. Watch the commercials here.
Pregnant Belly Cast
Pregnant Belly bodycast for a friend, with marble and bronze finishes.
Horse Marquette
This maquette was a pitch for a lifesize bronze commission that unfortunately never materialised. It was to highlight the animal abuse and neglect that is so prevalent especially amongst ‘working’ equines. I wanted to capture a horse in a most vulnerable pose- collapsing, neck exposed, screaming. The rope and blanket- both symbols of human ownership and …
Inhale
40cm height limited edition bronze on crystal base. Please contact me for purchase enquiries.
African Dinosaurs Dioramas
Built for Iziko Natural History Museum/Cape Town(opened 2010). I was involved during some of the sculpting process, did most of the paint finishes and helped with diorama fabrication and final installation. We worked closely with leading paleontologist Roger Smith and his team to try and convey the animals as close to what the experts believed these creatures …
Love in Bits and Pieces
This series of artworks formed part of my body of work that I made during my artist residency in Berlin 2009 funded by ‘p-art-ners Berlin-Windhoek’. I was heavily influenced by the stained sculptures adorning old european architecture with regards to mood and weathering. This was an attempt to make sense of dark emotions brought up …