House of Fairytales collaboration

For the past few months I've been working with the artist Astrid Sonne for the arts charity House of Fairytales. The house of Fairytales have just opened a six month long exhibition in Hall Place in Bexley. I worked on the creation of an interactive puppet room. We wanted to create a set of fantastical characters from the actual historical fabric of the house.One of the most fascinating facts of the house was its use as a base for the american branch decoding the enigma messages in World War 2. Therefore we came up with an excitable crayfish (as the house borders the river cray), a glamourous WW2 service woman decoding enigmas and a talking enigma machine.

We also had to decorate and paint the actual puppet theatre created by Mark Bayley. This meant cutting and painting more than a hundred of fabric bricks. The exhibition is on until October.