Marionette Characters of the Goldfields
The marionettes displayed below were part of the exhibition Are We On The Same Page in which eight artists/book club members demonstrated their personal responses to literature and reading.
I constructed the four marionettes. I used clay for heads, hands and lower legs including feet. For the rest of the bodies I used wood.
The marionettes were inspired by the Man Booker Prize winning novel of 2013, The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton. This historical/crime novel is set in the goldfields on the West Coast of New Zealand in the 1860s. It has a particular and personal meaning for me because my Great Grandfather was a gold miner from this region during the same period of time.
I constructed the four marionettes. I used clay for heads, hands and lower legs including feet. For the rest of the bodies I used wood.
The marionettes were inspired by the Man Booker Prize winning novel of 2013, The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton. This historical/crime novel is set in the goldfields on the West Coast of New Zealand in the 1860s. It has a particular and personal meaning for me because my Great Grandfather was a gold miner from this region during the same period of time.
