"SEPTEMBER ALREADY?" images

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All sizes are to closest half-cm, height x width x depth [except where indicated] and are maximum dimension including handles, furthest reach of automata elements, etc.

New PAUL SPOONER exhibits

Paul Spooner: The Conversation [at two different stages of cycle] 18 x 27.5 x 9
note: mechanism changed since these photos taken

Paul Spooner: Parasite Island [click for animation] 12 x 10.5 x 5.5

Paul Spooner: A Cheap Automata Shop 35 x 17.5 x 18

Paul Spooner: Un Homme et une Pipe

Paul Spooner: Owl House [two different stages]

Paul Spooner: Nude with Concertina

OTHER AUTOMATISTS' pieces

Works exhibited in direct homage to Paul Spooner

Carlos Zapata: Paul   35 x 16 x 15.5                 Peter Lennertz: Magician Rabbit   30 x 14 x 16                            Three Bears   24 x 28.5 x 17.5
T-shirt is emblazoned with Cabaret                    That's Paul Spooner being                                                                   refers to a Spooner piece
Mechanical Theatre's Bare Cat                         pulled out of the "hat"                                                                             on the same subject
logo, designed by Spooner

               Paul Spooner: Wiggling Figure               Keith Newstead: Dancing Lady
       Kindly loaned by Cabaret Mechanical             inspired by "Wiggling Figure" (and
                                             Theatre                                probably never exhibited together before:
                                                                                          a happy coincidence, since neither Cabaret nor
                                                                                          Keith knew the other piece was to be exhibited)

FULL LIST of co-exhibitors

John ALDEN     Jonathan ANGELL     Nigel ASHFORD     Lucy CASSON

Hilda Margery CLARKE     Paul CLARKE     Sue EVANS     Emily FIRMIN & Justin MITCHELL (of Total Pap)

Ron FULLER     Victor Stuart GRAHAM     Kazuaki HARADA     Neil HARDY (of Fabulous Animals)

Andy HAZELL     Daniel HERTHEL & Maria LEITE     Rachel HIGGINS     Rob HIGGS     Andrew LANYON

Rachel LARKINS (of Made, not Born)     Hansjörg LEIBLE     Peter LENNERTZ     Philip LOWNDES

John LUMBUS     Ian McKAY     Alan MAHON     Tony MANN     John MALTBY     Peter MARKEY

Syd MEATS     Virginio MOUTINHO     Frank NELSON     Keith NEWSTEAD     Beryl OWEN

Rodney PEPPÉ     Tatjana Tekkel PEPPÉ     Sue SPOONER     Tim SPOONER     Sergio PINESE     Robert RACE

Jane RYAN (of OPI)     Angela & Laurence St LEGER     Martin SMITH & Nick REGAN (of Laikingland)

Jeff SOAN (of Wobbly Wood / ex- of Toucan Play)     Wanda SOWRY     Melanie TOMLINSON

Mary TURNER (ex- of Cinemation)     Simon VENUS     Andrew WALTON

Douglas WILSON     Fionna WIRE     Jan ZALUD     Carlos ZAPATA

Douglas Wilson: Surprise Hare 43.5 x 27 [50 when ears raised] x 35 [incl. block wall-mount]

Jan Zalud: Tour de Bollard 23.5 x 17.5 x 16 [flat top 16 sq.]

Jan has made the flying owl for the RSC's current production of "Love's Labours Lost" at Stratford, which runs until the end of October (though it appears for only the last 15 seconds of the play!)

Jeff Soan [of Wobbly Wood]: [clockwise, from top] Large Blue Fish, Seal & Blue Fish

Nigel Ashford: Fancy Dress Party 26 x 23 [wingspan] x 20 [body length] Night Bird 42.5 x 34.5 [wingspan] x 34.5

Nigel Ashford: Jump for Joy 36 x 32 x 14.5

Jonathan Angell: Wiry Dragon 48 x 88 x 31 [wingspan: that's the dragon on the left] Hen House 42 x 23.5 x 23.5
[requires 130cm diam. flying space] These are battery-operated and run for about 6 months continuously

Sue Evans: Boat Pendulum Mermaid

Kazuaki Harada: Cat 35 x 15 x 15 The Shoes of Fred Astaire 11.5 x 12 x 9

Neil Hardy: Camel 23.5 x 13 x 7 The Hare and the Tortoise 29.5 x 21 x 10
[base changed since this photo taken]

Rachel Higgins: It's a Chameleon!

Rachel Higgins: Toad

Rachel Higgins: Mole

Rachel Larkins [of Made, not Born]: Duel Remembrance 48 x 56 x 22.5

Hansjörg Leible: 3 views of The Dumpling Eater (Knoedlfesser) 15.5 x 12.5 x 7.5 [excl. grey base]

Philip Lowndes: Quiet Contemplation of a Sandwich My Beautiful Hair
30.5 x 22 x 18 32 x 22 x 16.5

John Lumbus: The Surprise Gift 17.5 x 14 x 6

                   Ian McKay: Flotili   45 x 34 x 14.5                                 Ice-Cream Eater
                                                                                                           [wall-hanging or standing]
                                                                                                          56.5 x 7 x 11

Tony Mann: The Thrum Box 56.5 x 41 x 17.5

Peter Markey: Sparkling Music

Justin Mitchell [of Total Pap]: The Uncharmed Snake Loving Machine 47 x 18.5 x 12
35.5 x 25.5 x 10 [lights flash due to movement sensor]

Virginio Moutinho: Aquarium box 20 x 24 x 9

Virginio Moutinho: Couple box 27 x 16.5 x 7.5

Keith Newstead: Scuba Cat 30.5 x 28.5 x 14

Rodney Peppé: Choir 22 x 24 x 17.5

Sergio Pinese: One Can, Toucan & Alan Mahon: Laceworm Luncheon for the Bluetail
32.5 x 23.5 x 14 19.5 x 16 x 4.5
Delightfully good story behind the connection between these two. Alan considers himself a modest quality automatist;
Sergio, when asked, was not exactly backward about coming forward in his opinion on the Bluetail, about how realistic
it ought to be. To defuse the somewhat heated exchange, Alan's wife, Hendrijke, came up with the phrase "One Can,
Toucan" and a drawing, which Sergio later turned into this automaton. Alan is Irish, hence the Guinness reference in the
toucan image; Sergio is Italian Swiss, so has an abhorrence of spaghetti from a tin. Even though not his native tongue,
the label is in English, laden with jokes and puns, spoofing the typical spaghetti-can blurb.

Robert Race: Watching the Girls Go by I Eyebrows III
81.5 x 20.5 x 10 47 x 11 x 8

Martin Smith [of Laikingland]: Applause Machines [new design: battery-operated] 45 x 13 x 20 [across open hands]; Base 12 diam.

Wanda Sowry: Shark Attack 16 x 25 x 17.5 Skeletons 24.5 x 19 x 9.5

Wanda Sowry: Wanda's Workshop 22 x 24.5 x 9.5 Hoovering 22.5 x 30 x 11.5

Melanie Tomlinson: ... And Then I Saw a Deer 38 x 30 x 18 various Brooches [variable size] c.4 x 2.5 x 0.5
[pedestal is a practicable box, decorated inside] [safety-pin fixings]