Speculative worlds and speculative ideas with artistic director Sam Routledge In February during Mona Foma, we hosted UK artist Tim Spooner for a second stage creative development of a new durational performance installation, Matter Era. Tim is a performer,...
A compost heap called Heap with head of workshop/lead puppet-maker Bryony Anderson It’s two weeks out from the debut of our new character, Heap. It’s a giant compost heap that rises up and comes to life, and in the process of making her I’ve become an avid fan of...
A 2022 wrap-up from Chair Fiona Barber Terrapin started this year, as every year, with a goal: to make Tasmanian lives better through our work. A lofty ambition, perhaps, but one which effectively guides all our activities and helps us make decisions about where to...
Reflections from Greta Jean, Terrapin’s inaugural Creative Trainee supported by the Jennifer Davidson Creative Endowment Puppet making training of any depth beyond a day or two is extremely rare in Australia. It’s also something I had been seeking for a while,...
A dispatch from Tasmanian back roads with touring stage manager Ellen Roe Terrapin’s 2022 schools show The Paper Escaper began its season at the start of term three. We have already visited 39 Tasmanian schools and performed 55 shows and by the end of the season, we...
Our early steps on a path to greater sustainability with designer/maker Bryony Anderson I came out of the hills to join the Terrapin team after a couple of decades of working as a freelance puppet maker, committed to working with salvaged materials. That’s all very...
