Morphy Richards vacuum cleaner to morph as sculpture

This is the remains of my new Morphy Richards vacuum cleaner which I will use as a head for a sculpture of a humanoid as it is suitably anthropomorphic. It is useless as a vacuum cleaner because the tube for conveying the dust to the cylinder curves inside the head and is therefore impossible to clear if it gets blocked which it will do sooner or later. I tried wrangling with Kand Co who sold it to me. They passed me on to Morphy Richards who told me to unblock it with wire. Believe me it is impossible. So Morphy will have to morph. It makes a good head for one of a little tribe of humanoids I will be making for a sculpture trail with my fellow artists of the Scraptor Sculpture Group at the Magdalen Project n 2012.

The Scraptor Sculpture Trail at Stourhead

The Scraptors are resting a bit after installing a sculpture trail at Stourhead, the National Trust property in Wiltshire. Above my Hercules and Serpent . The Ancient Greek Boy Wonder dispatched them from his infancy. Below The Eye a joint work with my fellow Scraptor Paul Boswell. On the tree trunk a Chameleon by Scraptor Fiona Campbell. The trail continues through September.

Installing Sculpture at Stourhead

With my fellow Scraptors I have been installing work at Stourhead for our Sculpture Trail which will be in place throughout September. This is my Egret meets a Creature from the Deep and my Giant Flying Barn Owl

Spider for Stourhead

This is my spider ready for the Scraptors Sculpture Trail at Stourhead Gardens throughout September. It will be advance on a trapped bug. the web 20 feet wide will hang between two trees at Stourhead. The body was an ironing board. I bent it head to make it vertical.

Spider for Stourhead

I went to Stourhead the National Trust garden in Wiltshire to measure the curtains figuratively. As part of a sculpture trail I am creating with my fellow members of the Scraptors Sculpture Group to be on show throughout the month of September 2011 I will make a giant spider like the one shown here I made for a client in Sussex. It will hang between these two trees at Stourhead pictured here. There are eight metres between the two trees

My Frog at Stourhead for photoshoot

With my collaborators the Scraptor Sculptor Group. I took my Frog to Stourhead, the National Trust garden in Wiltshire for a photo shoot. In September it will feature in an exhibition in the woods next to the lake

The Scraptors at Stourhead

I have joined Fiona Campbell, Paul Boswell and Rachel Macelay to form a group which we are calling the Scraptors as we all make sculpture from scrap. We will offer themed landscape trails. This was our photoshoot at Stourhead, the iconic National Trust property in Wiltshire , where we have our first "gig", a sculpture trail in the adjacent woods. Here we pose in heron masks by the Heron made by Paul and Rachel.