PORT ELIOT 2012
We were delighted to be invited to work with Port Eliot festival again this year
http://www.porteliotfestival.com/
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Working with Micheal Howells the Creative Director for the festival
http://www.porteliotfestival.com/blog-home-featured/film-creative-director-michael-howells/
We were asked to create The Queens Beasts for the orangery venue, these are heraldic creatures-
The Queen's Beasts are ten heraldic statues depicting the
genealogy of Queen Elizabeth II. They were commissioned by the
British Ministry of Works from sculptor James Woodford (who was paid the sum of £2,750 for the
work) to stand in front of the temporary annex to Westminster Abbey for the Queen's coronation in 1953.
The beasts are some six-foot (1.83 m) high, cast in plaster, and could
not therefore be left in the open air. The beasts are: the lion of England, the griffin
of Edward III, the falcon of the Plantagenets, the black bull of Clarence, the yale of Beaufort, the white lion of Mortimer,
the White Greyhound of Richmond, the
red dragon of Wales, the unicorn
of Scotland, and the white horse of Hanover.
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| Another project was for the Bowling Green Marquee Micheal asked us to develop some trees made from books the Uni Library kindly gave us some duplicate law books ideal for lazer cutting oak leaves. | |
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| Making clusters of oak leaves |
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| Working in the orangery on the beasts |
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Jon Drori telling us about ‘The strange and saucy tricks that flowers play’
Jon is a Trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Woodland Trust
and Wildscreen. He’s a Visiting Professor at Bristol University,
specialising in misconceptions in science and in the uses of technology
for learning
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| party on |
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| Jon Ronson author of amongst other things of Men who Stare at Goats |
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| Dominic West |
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| Tracey Chevalier author of The Girl with the Pearl Earring |
