Sharmanka Exhibition

Following the success of Sharmanka’s new Gothic Circus exhibition at last year’s Edinburgh Festival, and more recently as part of MimeFest in London, the pieces move to the Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock.

SHARMANKA (Russian for hurdy-gurdy) was founded by sculptor-mechanic Eduard Bersudsky and theatre director Tatyana Jakovskaya in St.Petersburg (Russia) in 1989.  Audiences in many countries have been fascinated by its magic, and based in Glasgow since 1996 it has gained a reputation as one of the  city’s hidden treasures.

 

‘Bizarre, hilarious, ghoulish… unmissible’. – The Sunday Times.

The exhibition opens on February 11th and continues until March 29th.

Spooner Valentine’s Heart

Valentine’s day brings a new Paul Spooner edition of 13 hearts titled  “Be Still My Blinking Heart”.

Turn the handle and the heart blinks in anticipation.

Paul remarks: ‘It is an opportunity to donate an organ to a loved one. The blink mechanism is a spin-off development of owl technology and to get the oak for the base I had to saw up our bed.”
size: Width 4.5cm Height 8.5cm Depth 4.5cm

Price 97.50+VAT.

Buy it here.

Sketchbook Moment No.21

Puzzles for Pussies.
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Sketchbook Moment No.20

Much of what you say is wise, little brother, but there is a great deal of undigested garbage mixed in with it.
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Sketchbook Moment No.19

Scenes from a faith school: Solid geometry.
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