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This small maquette (16 cm) of Malcolm Fraser was made in clay as a study for a Rubbery Figures puppet. It was cast into plaster for an exhibition called The Rubbery Years in the National Gallery of Victoria's Access Gallery.
This small bronze maquette of Colonel Gaddafi of Libya was first made as a wax study for a Rubbery Figures puppet.
Rubbery Figures heads of John Stone, Ian Sinclair and John Button bottled for posterity. They were part of Nicholson's exhibition "The Rubbery Years" that toured Australia under the auspices of the National Museum of Australia.
Rubbery Figures puppets of George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev exhibited in preserving jars.
"Pigs Arse." John Elliott adrft in a sea of politics.
Joh Bjelke-Petersen, the Queensland Premier whose wife Flo was famous for her pumpkin scones.
In a famous speech Paul Keating described himself as the Placido Domingo of Australian politics.
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Peter Nicholson started making sculpture in 1982 because at the time it seemed like a natural offshoot of his cartooning, and a valuable way of making caricature studies of his cartoon targets.
He had just returned from Italy, after living there with his wife and children for a year. He was inspired by the story-telling power of medieval Italian sculpture, the grotesque sculpture of the baroque, and of course the work of French nineteenth century cartoonist Honore Daumier.
He made many caricature sculptures, which eventually led to the making of the Rubbery Figures puppets. His sculpture was exhibited in several exhibitions, including the National Museum exhibition that toured Australia in 1993-4.
Former Victorian Premer Jeff Kennett comes out of the plaster mould. This over life size rubber head was made to plug into the life size figure shown below.
Life size figures of Jeff Kennett and Joan Kirner in the Rubbery Figures studio the day before the state election was announced in 1993. They were photographed shaking hands at the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the front page of The Age newspaper.
New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange
Alan Bond withdraws billions from the hole in the wall. The reverse of the wall showed Keating and Hawke adjusting the banking system.
In Australian football they take screamers like this all the time.
This caricature of Bob Hawke is cast in plaster and painted with acrylics.
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