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Puppeteers Sian Kidd and Ronnie le Drew with Victorian marionettes from the museum's collection, V&A Performance Festival April 2018

Drawing
29/04/2018 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This sketch was made at the Victoria and Albert Museum by the Brighton-based illustrator, author, poet, performer and teacher Curtis Tappenden. He particularly enjoys sketching circus and has made hundreds of lightning drawings capturing the moment at the ringside, but sketched this while some of the museum’s Victorian marionettes were being performed in the Globe, in the European Galleries, during the museum's performance festival on Sunday 29th April 2018. Curtis was in the museum to run a drawing workshop and also sketched Metta Theatre's show in the lecture theatre.

Puppeteers Sian Kidd (left) and Ronnie le Drew (right) are shown operating two drunken clown marionettes from the Tiller-Clowes troupe within the struts of the Globe in the European Galleries. A short comic script was written to demonstrate the marionettes in performance and was performed with live music three times during the afternoon to an audience mainly comprising parents and children.


Object details

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Object type
TitlePuppeteers Sian Kidd and Ronnie le Drew with Victorian marionettes from the museum's collection, V&A Performance Festival April 2018 (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Chinagraph wax pencil on cartridge paper
Brief description
Puppeteers Sian Kidd and Ronnie le Drew operating the drunken stilt-walker clowns from the museum's Tiller-Clowes marionettes in the Globe, European Galleries, V&A Performance Festival, 29th April 2018. Drawing by Curtis Tappenden
Physical description
Blue line drawing on white cartridge paper of Sian Kidd and Ronnie le Drew operating two stilt-walking clown marionettes within the Globe wooden structure in the V&A's European galleries
Dimensions
  • Height: 42.1cm
  • Width: 29.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
Signed by the artist recto in pencil
Translation
CURTIS TAPPENDEN
Credit line
Given by the artist
Summary
This sketch was made at the Victoria and Albert Museum by the Brighton-based illustrator, author, poet, performer and teacher Curtis Tappenden. He particularly enjoys sketching circus and has made hundreds of lightning drawings capturing the moment at the ringside, but sketched this while some of the museum’s Victorian marionettes were being performed in the Globe, in the European Galleries, during the museum's performance festival on Sunday 29th April 2018. Curtis was in the museum to run a drawing workshop and also sketched Metta Theatre's show in the lecture theatre.

Puppeteers Sian Kidd (left) and Ronnie le Drew (right) are shown operating two drunken clown marionettes from the Tiller-Clowes troupe within the struts of the Globe in the European Galleries. A short comic script was written to demonstrate the marionettes in performance and was performed with live music three times during the afternoon to an audience mainly comprising parents and children.
Associated objects
Collection
Accession number
S.566-2018

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Record createdSeptember 6, 2018
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