Jabberwocky! Illuminated puppet on tricycle base designed & made with Jane Gaffikin during the Plague Year of 2020 when all other work had dissapperaed. A detailed archive of design & build can be found here: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/dave0887
Jabberwocky illuminated puppet on the streets of Redcar, November 2021. Photo courtesy Cleveland & Redcar Borough Council
Ychen Bannog: A large illuminated puppet of an Ox from Welsh Mythology, made for Winter Rising in Llandudno by Walk the Plank
Illuminated Elephant Lantern Backpack Puppets, designed and made with Jane Gaffikin, commissioned by Wild Rumpus for Lanterns at Chester Zoo 2019
Giraffe - lantern backpack puppet designed & made with Jane Gaffikin for Wild Rumpus/Lanterns at Chester Zoo 2018/2019
Giraffes by day- lantern backpack puppet designed & made with Jane Gaffikin for Wild Rumpus/Lanterns at Chester Zoo
Dragon built for Telford Carnival of Giants, 2018.
Leviathan sea monster for Spare Parts parade 2016
Obby oss - a re-imagined hobby horse puppet; mounted on a custom built tricycle, with fully articulated head/neck, blinking eyes, wiggling ears and snapping mouth. Operated by 2 puppeteers
Shark, built for Extraordinary Orchard Park Parade, Hull 2017. 6 metres long, with articulated head, tail, chomping jaws, squirting water and bubbles, mounted on an electric powered 3 wheel chassis.
Fish Trike - illuminated angler fish on tricycle chassis, with snapping mouth, flapping fins, bubbles, water spray, sound system and LED lighting.
Owl, made for Macnas Parade 2016
John Everafraid - 6 metre high puppet made for the Berkshire Giant project with Macnas and Newbury Corn Exchange
The boneyard beast snorts smoke during a fight with a beast wrangler at Hull Freedom Festival 2015
Crom, Macnas Parade 2014. As a core part of the design & build team I was responsible for all the engineering, structure & mechanical gubbins that makes him move.
John Everafraid - 6 metre high puppet made for the Berkshire Giant project with Macnas and Newbury Corn Exchange
Lantern Bear image - 4m high illuminated bear made for 101 Outdoor Arts/Corn Exchange Newbury for their Winter Lantern Trail, December 2020
6m high smoke snorting, illuminated totemic stag at Heat the Streets, Blackpool 2009
Giant Cockroach, Macnas Parade "This FIerce Beauty" 2011
Orfeo, Macnas Parade 2009
Orfeo, Macnas Parade 2009
The Beast of Bracknell, made from detritus from Bracknell civic waste centre and summoned in a communal ceremony at the finale of the Big Day Out Festival 2008.
The Beast of Bracknell, made from detritus from Bracknell civic waste centre and summoned in a communal ceremony at the finale of the Big Day Out Festival 2008
Junk wasp with inflatable antennae made for Liverpool Lantern Company 2009
Bestiary
A catalogue of puppets, beasts, giants and creatures. Made for various events and companies, often on custom built chassis and animated with levers, pulleys, wheels, ropes, cables, engineered joints and plenty of elbow grease. Effects like smoke, bubbles, water sprays, lights and sound add another layer of animation and life.