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Swell Sculpture Festival is pumping again this year and John’s piece ‘Rising Tide’ is creating a lot of buzz. The free festival runs every day and ends this Sunday so make sure you pop down to Currumbin and check it out. We have some extra double passes for Surrealism Up Late @ GOMA this Friday night in Brisbane so log on to our Contact Page and attach your contact details and the Word ‘Surrealism’ and join us for the night.
Surrealism Up Late with John Cox @ GOMA Brisbane Thanks to the Gallery of Modern Art, we have 5 double passes to give away to Surrealism Up Late on Friday 16 September featuring music by Naik from Perth. Experience the ‘Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams’ exhibition after hours. Up Late features a stylish bar and lounge situated right in the heart of the exhibition, talks by Gallery curators and local innovators – featuring John Cox on this evening, free film screenings, and live music performance. For more information visit www.qag.qld.gov.au/uplate To win click here. Write the word Surrealism and your Name. We will email…
Welcome to our new Website and Blog Station We’ll be regularly blogging to let you know what is going on in the world of film, sculpture, culture, monsters and John Cox’s Creature Workshop. Terra Nova Launch heating up If you’d like a sneak peek at the dinosaur project we’ve been working on lately you can check out all the hype at: www.terranovatv.net/ We’ll be blogging on a regular basis so – Click here to let us know what you think … …
Now Showing @ Discover the skills and processes involved in bringing a creature from the written page to the silver screen in this fascinating ‘behind the scenes’ exhibition. How to Make a Monster features the work of John Cox, Academy Award winner for Visual Effects (for the movie Babe), and his company John Cox’s Creature Workshop. It reveals how monsters and creatures are designed and story-boarded, maquettes made and then how the full size creatures are sculpted, moulded, and finished. See how animatronic components are designed and installed to create the bones and muscles that bring monsters to life. This…
‘Maddie & Mike’ 2010 Public Art commissioned by Gold Coast City Council for the newly redeveloped Southport Broadwater Parkland.
Betty Blue Eyes Betty was designed and created by John Cox in collaboration with Tim Hatley, the show’s production designer, for Cameron Mackintosh Productions, UK. There were 4 pigs constructed, each built for a particular scene. Both the cart pig and the bath pig were constructed identically so that in the event of one puppet failing on the night they could be interchanged with each other without causing any delay during the performance. A static version of Betty, which was referred to as the ‘pig in a blanket’, is manhandled and roughly pushed into the bathroom at the beginning of…
‘The Race’ 2010 Swell Sculpture Festival