The World Through Wooden Eyes

Welcome to The World Through Wooden Eyes, home to the John M Blundall Collection, the finest resource of inspirational, multicultural material for the development of creative puppet theatre in the UK.

The Ideas Store is managed by John M. Blundall, one of the world’s leading puppet masters, director, designer, craftsman, and creator of more than 80 major multimedia puppet theatre productions, and collaborator with national theatre, opera and ballet companies, and Stephen Foster, studio craftsman, designer and creator of puppets and masks.

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Asian Theatre Puppets
Creativity, Culture andCraftsmanship

This is a stunningly beautiful large coffee table book based on the museum and Collection of Paul Lin in Taiwan. It provides a unique picture of the professional and diverse range of Asian puppet theatre culture with 347 photographic illustrations including 234 of some of the finest colour photographs of puppets by Wang Hanshun I have seen.

Dr. Paul Lin, Founder of the Taiyuan Arts and Culture Foundation and a tireless promoter of Taiwanese culture established the Puppet Centre with its director Dr. Robin Ruezendaal in 2002, In 2005 the Centre moved into a new and permanent home. Housing the collection, a theatre and educational facilities, it also houses a residential performing company that has made tours to many parts of the world............Click for More


	Exhibitions

		Peddlers of Pleasure From June 2009 until June 2010, a selection of Punch puppets and his cousins from around the world will be on display in the Springburn Display Space. A series of events will accompany the exhibition over the summer. For more details click here.


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