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Puppetry for Artists: Life-sized puppets and performance

with Isobel Smith

Make a puppet based on your own drawing/painting, and learn the puppeteering techniques needed to explore its character and make it come alive. The course will cover ideas generation and design, through to completion of your puppet. Techniques we will explore are: stitching, modelling with stockinette and stuffing, armature making, glueing and painting. There will be a demonstration of puppeteering skills followed by the opportunity to animate your puppet and explore and develop its character to music.


Isobel Smith. Isobel studied design at Central St Martin’s and fine art at University of
Brighton. She is mentored by the prestigious Green Ginger puppet company in Bristol
and performs regularly with her musicians Foster&Gilvan as Badstock Productions at Jane
Bom-Banes in Brighton and various locations in London. Her company Gravy Boat Puppets
was launched in 2007. She is a Creative Partnerships Practitioner in several Sussex  schools. She is currently converting a caravan into a touring puppet theatre.
www.gravyboatpuppets.co.uk

Ten Mondays: 20 September – 22 November 2010 · 7–9:30pm
£80 full   £70 concessions
Full/concession

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