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A paper cut out boy called Benny, who has one leg, the other a wheel stands on top of a table, behind him looks to be a workshop and on either side of him are coloured tentacles.

The Paper Escaper

Rum’un: A Tasmanian mascot

Rum’un: A Tasmanian mascot

On a bright blue background we see a giant puppet ferret called Feathers with a puppet cockatoo it's shoulder

A person wearing an array of fluro orange clothing, goggles and a raincoat is set in front of a bright blue background.

The Myer Melbourne Mural hall has been turned into a room with a performance in the centre, there is a crocodile show, with fake green grass, a blue watery like area and a puppet crocodile. around the edges of the room is seating filled with patrons watching the performance happen.

Christmas at the Crocoseum

Inside the UTAS Inveresk Building, in Launceston, Is an grey, darker grey and green mountain, this is an interpretation of a mountain, this mountain also has long red horn stretching from the top to the bottom. On this mountain there are also stick notes pinned which speak power statements.

A Mountain of Voices

A puppet compost heap made of fabric and foam sits on a yellowy stone ground in front of a sandstone backdrop. There is a person, a gardener holding a pitchfork next to the larger than life compost heap, this gardener looks scared of the puppet.

Gumball Dream Machine

A person in the bottom left of the image holds their hands up touching the face of a dragon coming from the bottom right. The dragon is purple, with red parts coming from it's neck, blue scales around it's mouth and orange eyelids. This two are in front of a orangey/yellow backdrop.

The Story of Chi

an elderly person holds a shadow puppet horse up to a screen, a light comes from behind to light up the screen. A young person with a name tag stands off the the side of the elderly person.

Storied: Intergenerational workshops

Looking between two people we see a wall, with sticks/poles poking out from the wall, these poles are holding are trying to be the hands for a kettle pouring a cup of tea. We also see two tomatoes, a cup and saucer and a 1litre carton of milk.

All Day Breakfast

There are three people and a cat within this image. Two people wear black masks over their faces, one wears a boater hat and the other holds the cat puppet up to an elderly person sitting on a bed. The elderly person pats and consoles the puppet cat.

A group of people under theatre lights stand at a table on the table there are puppets and off to the side somebody is watching them use the puppets

A person holds a red and yellow duck on a table

Jennifer Davidson Creative Endowment

On a grey surface we see a tight grouping of black little balls, on the edge the balls frey at the edges and in the middle there is a white piece of mouldable plastic

A young person holds up a wooden handle, attached to the handle are six seperate shadow people made from what looks to be cardboard boxes. these people will create shadows and stories with a projector

Set in front of a black background is a male playing table tennis, this person plays against no one, but the game itself. There is an larger than life tv screen directly in front of the player, it looks like three tv's together and in a mix of bright australiana colours the screen says REVOLUTION

Anthem Anthem Revolution

Graphic of cat flying through the sky

A group of people are standing and looking at black marquees covered in white drawings as well as up high there are three tv screens showing a black background and white drawing

Infinite Monster

A large cement mixer is parked and an adult and young person look upon the artwork on the side of the truck, the artwork is a very large mouth, with teeth and three eyes

Ma Ubu and Pa Ubu walk through a crowd of people gathering near a pool, children show excitement at the larger than life characters.

In front of a black background there is a person, holding two puppets, one puppet looks like a small person, the other like a skeletal wallaby. These puppets sit on top of a green mountain scape and there is a moon in the middle of the image in the black background.

The Riddle of Washpool Gully

The Paper Escaper
Rum’un: A Tasmanian mascot
Feathers
Goldfish
The Bridge
Christmas at the Crocoseum
A Mountain of Voices
Heap
Tip Duck
Gumball Dream Machine
The Story of Chi
Storied: Intergenerational workshops
All Day Breakfast
Forever Young
Stride
Jennifer Davidson Creative Endowment
Matter Era
Shadow Play
Anthem Anthem Revolution
Scaredy Cat
Infinite Monster
Monster Trucks
King Ubu
The Riddle of Washpool Gully

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