There were also exercises in developing puppet choreography and staging, which included creating music videos (with props!) and short variety acts. Over the 6 day workshops at Carriageworks, participants worked with a range of moving mouth puppets and learned about principles in lip-sync and eye focus (while getting used to working with a TV monitor where what you see on the screen is the reverse of what you are doing – this was a challenge in itself!). In February 2014, Emmy Award winning puppeteer Noel MacNeal (who has worked on Sesame Street, The Muppets and Bear in the Big Blue House) came to Sydney from Brooklyn USA to teach 2 one-week master classes on puppetry for film and television. Here is a post about the video (which includes an interview with Busby Marou) on Yen Magazine The film was also nominated for an ARIA Music Award for Best Video in 2014. That, and Michael (the green puppet who stars in the video as “Woody”) getting to show off the fruits of his puppet gym workouts (which he was pretty pleased about). A highlight was staging a rather amusing puppet brawl with another (live actor) cowboy (who actually happened to be really nice off screen). They were revamped (and re-wigged) for a big adventure involving lots of different film locations (which roughly translates as Kay operating the puppets while lying in the middle of a field, a saloon and even perched near a cliff). The film was directed by Renny Wijeyamohan ( Open Door Films) and in case you may be feeling a little déjà vu, the puppets in the video are the very same ones that Kay made for a little Aussie doco about the Herpes virus on “Dating the H*Bomb” in 2012. Balsa wood, tissue paper mache, fur fabric, reclaimed decorations.In March 2014, puppeteer Kay Yasugi got on the puppet band wagon to film a music video for the Aussie folk duo Busby Marou to release their new song “A Second Mistake”. PLA plastic filament, recycled sushi fish bottles, fishing line 100cm x 50cm x 45cm. Turtle Shell (Moon and Constellations), PLA plastic filament, tissue paper, foil, masking tape 57cm x 58cm x 12cm. Turtle Shell Sheild (False Promises), PLA plastic filament, wish stones 60cm x 58cm x 12cm. Tissue paper, foil, masking tape 75cm x 45cm x 30cm. Whelk Shell (Fragility). Tissue paper, plaster 90cm x 50cm x 30cm. The Burden of Stuff No.1. Plaster, foam sheet, acrylic paint, fabric, styrene, recycled wire frame. Piano Creature No.6. Piano mechanisms, buckram, paper, cardboard 50cm x 50cm x 47cm 2010 Piano Creature No.3. Piano mechanisms, balsa wood, paper mache 55cm x 56cm x 60cm 2010 I’d love you to drop in and see it if you happen to be up Townsville way in the next five weeks!Ī huge thank you to my family, friends and colleagues for all their support, encouragement and enthusiasm and skills in helping me get this up, in particular to Anna Raupach, Tim Raupach, Alex Raupach, Wendy Quinn, Lelde Vitols, Lisa Styles, Imogen Keen, Robyn Campbell, Elizabeth Paterson, Bev Hogg, barb barnett, Chris Hahn, Steve Crossley, Caroline Stacey, Joe O’Connor, and the Pinnacles Gallery team. Using her experience in making puppets and sculptural forms, and interests in new materials and technologies, Hilary Talbot has created some of the inhabitants of this imagined future as a meditation on the tensions and challenges faced by society now. The process is dynamic, relentless, wonderful and dispassionate and acutely responsive to the footprint of humanity. The patterns of disruption follow the age-old evolutionary law: diversify, select, adapt. In the deepest ocean a sightless blob fish sucks for sustenance and in the limitless sky the hollow-boned birds continue their daily feat of survival in newly changing times. The Piano Creatures, evolved from the driftwood mechanisms of discarded instruments, pick their way across the sands carrying the promise of music and hope. In the shallows are the ghosts of former shells, fragile and colonized or fossilized by synthetic substances. On an imagined shoreline we see disruptions in the natural world. The work falls into several groups – The Piano Creatures, The Big Fish (Evangeline), the Shells and Cocoons, and the Secret Cabal of Elders, as well as a few other creatures in an imagined world: I’m really happy and excited that my first gallery exhibition, Glimpses of a Seabird Flying Blind is opening tomorrow, 23 March at the Pinnacles Gallery in Townsville, continuing through to 29 April! It represents almost a year of work, and a new direction for me.
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