Rock My Boat

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 exhibits are created from junk -surplus nutcrackers and redundant fire extinguishers, amongst other things.

August 6th 11 – 4 pm Kinetic Creations Workshop.
August 14th – 12.30 Lunchtime talk with Johnny White and Amanda Wray and arrival of new exhibit “Storm in a Teacup”.
August 15th – (all day) Wiggly Wires Workshop with Johnny White – booking essential.

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Sketchbook Moment No.39

Mr. Rowbottom was mentioned on the radio this morning…
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Sketchbook Moment No.38

Robotic Police State
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Sketchbook Moment No. 37

Projectile.
Mechanical interpretation of the Heimlich manoeuvre.

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Simon Tait’s Mews No.2

I call it sciretance

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 must be a work of art because Read more

Sketchbook Moment No. 36

The Shop.
You need it. We got it.

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Bernie Lubell in the UK

If you are in the UK this summer it is worth visiting San Francisco
based artist Bernie Lubell’s ‘A Theory of Entanglement’ exhibition Read more

Mechanics Alive!! in Glasgow

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 Museum setting is a Victorian school (a beautiful Mackintosh designed building) which closed exactly 30 years ago on the launch of the CMT exhibition. Children (and adults) are welcome to take part in the free workshops to Design Automata, and there are 35 pieces on display.

Click here to see the Facebook album of the exhibition.