Ree treweek biography of martin

I posted a link to the interview, which is freakin' awesome, by the way! Honky-Tonk Dragon. Post a Comment. At the end of this month the Gangs new website will be up which will give everybody a far better understanding of The Household entails and all its inhabitants. This particular history was inspired by a doll that Markus had been given as a present, a second hand kiwi bird doll who was found at Milnerton market.

I begin to draw countless characters inspired by this doll while Markus wrote a beautiful poem, and so it came to be that the Piranhas were born. This served as the basis for the animation that followed. After completing the animation we posted it online and the response we got from it was unbelievable. We began to travel to film festivals all over the world and won best short on a large number of them, including the Anncey Festival, which is the top animation festival in the world.

I absolutely love this side of the project, its a lot of fun and gives me an excuse to travel to interesting places. Aside from that Markus and I are currently working on a new book. The Bog is rather a stinky place, quite humid, warm and sports one of the greatest and deadliest jungles ever imagined. It is here, in these jungles, that one will happen upon the Moles, a proud and ancient race.

The Moles are the custodians of the jungle and the realm. It should have remained so, if not for the Bears.

Ree treweek biography of martin

The Bears are an industrial bunch who began to settle in The Bog around a hundred years before our story begins. They initially did this to harvest the ocean of natural gas found below the jungle, but soon found something much more enticing - Honey. The bears could not get enough of the sweet jungle nectar, and as they grew increasingly wealthier they also grew increasingly fat, and they all did rather very well.

Unfortunately for them, the Moles were also quite partial to Jungle Honey. So in response the Moles began chopping up the Bears, who in turn fired at the Moles with pistols. These skirmishes quickly escalated into one of the bloodiest and drawn out wars in the history of The Bog. What part do you play in the creation of the sculptures and characters - and are they as you envision them, or do they change as the ideas become physical objects?

My sculptures always begin as a simple line drawings. They always rather surprise me as they come into existence. Sometimes, when looking back on old drawings I have no memory of creating them. Today, she is the director of the award-winning concept and animation studio, Tulips, and Chimneys. Read: The Muslim feminist drawing her story in henna.

Treweek is continuing to add to the local creative scene by turning her entire home into a museum filled with her creations. For this and other Beautiful News stories, click here. Read: Books save lives and this woman will show you how Together with a group of creatives in Cape Town, Treweek formed the Blackheart Gang, serving as a concept developer and character designer.

Read: The Muslim feminist drawing her story in henna Treweek is continuing to add to the local creative scene by turning her entire home into a museum filled with her creations. The members of the group spent nine months teaching themselves how to animate and put together the music video Ringo. Her work on the video received international recognition, and she and BHG were invited to Australia to exhibit during the Commonwealth Games.

They presented a short film, titled The Tale of How, which received a staggering 12 awards in the course of