Sunday, 7 December 2008
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Recent News
Well, the egg festival in St Antonin is to go ahead as usual over the Easter weekend of 2009. The event will be bigger than ever and it is planned to have a new range of events alongside the core exhibition of the giant eggs. One other development is that it looks as though the egg festival is to go international. I am currently in discussion with the Zoo in Zurich, Switzerland to undertake an egg festival there in October 2009. The purpose of this event is somewhat different from the St Antonin event in that the eggs will be smaller (about 36 cm) high and represent the size of the eggs layed by the Elephant Bird of Madagascar (now extinct). The Zoo in Zurich has a very large biosphere that is dedicated to the flaura and fauna of Madagascar and this event will hopefully highlight the problems associated with the destruction of the rainforests and the mass extictions that are taking place across the globe. I will soon be setting up another site dedicated to this project so keep looking. I would be very grateful for any contacts about Madagascar and of course the Elephant Bird.
Thursday, 10 April 2008
This event must be unique. It is the only time in my life where I have seen the work of professional artists, amateur artists, shopkeepers and school children all combined seamlessly in the same exhibition. As everybody works with the same basic form, the exhibition has a sense of unity that is very unusual. The youngest artists probably age from around two years old through to artists in their nineties. One aim of this event is to bring the village together and bring people to the village. There is a genuine depth to the creative pool that exists in this area. Each year there are people who make an egg for the first time and we all wonder at their extraordinary imagination.
Monday, 31 March 2008
Saturday, 29 March 2008
Friday, 28 March 2008
Thursday, 27 March 2008
The Fete Du N'Oeuf 2008 is now nearly complete. This was the fifth year of this incredible event. Nearly 100 half metre high eggs were once again on display in the medieval village of St Antonin Noble Val in the South West of France. Unfortunately the weather over the Easter weekend was so bad that instead of the usual display of these eggs outside the exhibition had to take place in the Mairie of the village. This did not stop people turning up in their hundreds to see these amazing objects.
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