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August 18, 2020/by Ben Taggart
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Finally finished construction on the diorama of Cl Finally finished construction on the diorama of Cloth Fair. Just blocking out base colours ready for painting. #modelmaking #miniature #londonarchitecture #architecturelovers #architecturalart #houseportrait #heritage #listedbuilding #historichouses #heritagearchitecture #landmark #clothfair #modelhouses
The Dick Whittington pub, which stood on the corne The Dick Whittington pub, which stood on the corner of Cloth Fair from the 1550s until its demolition in 1916. This beautiful old Tudor building will be part of a diorama model of the entire north side of the street currently under construction in my workshop. #houseportrait #portrait #heritage #Victorianarchitecture #Edwardianarchitecture #Georgianarchitecture #listedbuilding #historichouses #heritagearchitecture #landmark #housefront #facade #clothfair #tudorlondon
It’s been a treat to make this beautiful little It’s been a treat to make this beautiful little house. Getting the stone colour and texture just right involved a little testing but I think I’ve got it. #modelmaking #miniature #architecturalgifts #modelhouses #architecturelovers #architecturalart #houseportrait #heritage #victorianhouse #listedbuilding #historichouses #heritagearchitecture #landmark #victorianarchitecture
The model of an entire London street set in 1900 i The model of an entire London street set in 1900 is nearing the painting stage… #diorama #scenicdesign #setdesign #londonstreets #miniature #model #Londonarchitecture #architecturelovers #architecturalart #Londonliving #houseportrait #clothfair
I’m sure I had a black cat before I started this I’m sure I had a black cat before I started this job… #workingfromhome #houseportrait #miniature #modelhouses #architecturalwonder #petsatwork #modelmaking #architecturelovers
The Holocaust Gallery at the Imperial War Museum w The Holocaust Gallery at the Imperial War Museum will close for refurbishment on 3rd October. This is your very last chance to see the Auschwitz Model! In 1999 the sculptor, artist and designer Gerry Judah asked me to help construct a model portraying a section of the vast Auschwitz concentration camp as it existed in 1944. Although it has been over 20 years since the model was completed I still regard it as perhaps the most important project I have worked on and certainly the one which required the most emotional energy as well as creative skill. The Imperial War Museum had approached Gerry to create a simple block representation of a crucially important section of the camp for their new Holocaust Gallery. The model was to include the famous watchtower gates through which the railway brought the prisoners, the disembarkation ramp where the prisoners were ‘sorted’, a series of typical accommodation huts and finally the infamous building comprising the gas chamber and crematorium. The boundaries of the model enabled the entire story and purpose of the camp to be laid out in one single tableau, a diorama measuring twelve metres long and three metres wide. The genius of Gerry’s model design is that it shows each of the various episodes of the experience of the prisoner being simultaneously represented. Time has stood still for each event and the museum visitor sees the train entering the camp, and then the same train on the ramp; prisoners being grouped by sex and fitness to work, and then the same prisoners walking to their place of execution. The IWM were, I think, persuaded by Gerry to change the brief from a simple block model showing positions of buildings to what became a sculpture of cultural significance. Now that plans have been drawn up for a new Holocaust Gallery at the IWM the life of the model is at an end. I urge you to to visit the Imperial War Museum in the next few days to take one last look at this iconic artwork. @gerryjudah #holocaust #auschwitz #imperialwarmuseum @iwmlondon #neverforget #museumart #modelmaking
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