GOTHIC KINETIC
Following the success of Travelling Circus the second touring set was made to accommodate the growing demand for Sharmanka’s more “compact” work.
SINGER TOWER
The bottom Singer machine is very special – it was presented to Sharmanka by textile designer Claire Higney who had used it to make her very first works as a student at Glasgow School of Art in the 1970s.
WINTER TUNA FISHING IN THE CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS
The Singer sewing machine at the bottom was made in the 1920s and used by Jim Stirling in his shoe repair shop from 1975-2000. Sharmanka purchased it form him on eBay.
HIS MASTER’S VOICE
The horse is made from a Willcox & Gibbs sewing machine; the gramaphone is a HMV replica and the toy cupboard is early twentieth century Russian.
THE SECRET LIFE OF ARTISTS
The figures on the old cartwheel are Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Leornardo da Vinci, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Rousseau and Niko Pirosmanashvili. The masochist at the bottom tortures himself with a Willcox & Gibbs sewing machine.
THE APPLE EATERS
The horse is made from an industrial apple-peeler, “Bonanza”, made in the USA in 1876. It spent most of its life at the factory of Leyfield in Liverpool, helping to make fruit mince-meat to fill pies for Christmas. Thanks to Roy Grisedale who saved it from oblivion.
MULTICULTURAL ORCHESTRA
BRAIN WASHING
THE LIFE OF A CLOWN
GOTHIC KINETIC HAS VISITED…
- 2017 – Moving Toys from Scotland – National Science Museum, Daejeon, Korea
- 2016 – Witches Brouhaha @ Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway, Scotland
- 2013 – 20-21 Gallery, Scunthorpe, England
- 2011 – Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, Inverness, Scotland
- 2010 – An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
- 2010 – Dance of Machines @ Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- 2009 – Automata Theatre @ Granada Science Park, Granada, Spain
- 2009 – “Lille 3000”, Lille, France
- 2009 – “Les Folies”, Maubeuge, France
- 2009 – London International Mime
- Festival, England
- 2009 – Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock, England
Kinetic Sculptures – Eduard Bersudsky | Theatrical Concept – Tatyana Jakovskaya
Show Design, Light & Sound – Sergey Jakovsky | Music – Brian Irvine
Illustrations – Maggy Lenert Stead | Photography – Robin Mitchell