Making It!

Another view from the main entrance to the exhibition showing 'Norma' the large comic/erotic puppet - "Turn the handle, pull my strings and I'll dance for you". These photographs were taken at the end of the six week exhibition period and Norma was very much the worse for wear. Audiences and visitors queued to operate her. Daily gyrating for the public ended up with Norma losing an arm! The piece was made by Jo Smith who was in the first cohort of students on the course graduating in 1992, thus Norma is really quite elderly now. Jo has continued her work with puppetry and now has her own company touring France (where she completed a three year post graduate course in puppetry)

The large dark grey figure is a 1.5 times life sculpt by Corin Hardy who graduated in July 1997. Corin has recently received a total grant of £7,500 to fund the completion of an animated film begun at College as well as taking on work for the Tussauds Group as a story board artist.

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