Publications

Ellen Rixford’s new book on all things puppet and automata

www.figuresinthefourthdimension.com

• International Crafts (Martina Margetts,Thames and Hudson) 1991
• Exploring carved wood – Crafts Council education handbook 1992
• Terence Conran on London (Conran octopus) 2000
• Crafts Council’s Buyers Guide to Contemporary Wood/Metal 2001
• Automata and Mechanical Toys (Rodney Pepe, The Crowood Press) 2002
• Figures In The Fourth Dimension – Mechanical movements for puppets and automata (Ellen Rixford) 2015

A selection of Catalogues (and similar) my work has appeared in –

• Contemporary Crafts (Phillips, catalogue)1989
• Contemporary British Crafts (catalogue, British Council) 1988/89
• Museum of Automata, York (catalogue) 1992)
• Automata, The Southbank Centre (catalogue) 1992)
• The Woodcarver’s Craft (catalogue, Crafts Council) 1994
• Cogs, Cams, Springs  & things (catalogue, Towner Art Gallery) 1994
• Exempla’96 (Handwerks exposition, Munich, catalogue)
• Contemporary Craft Collecting (catalogue, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead) 2003
• 30/30 Vision Crafts (catalogue, Crafts Council) 2003
• Royal Shakespeare Company Yearbook 2004

A selection of some of (mainly) magazine articles my work featured in:

• Crafts (no.89) – Ruled by his heads – Rosemary Hill
• Financial Times  (1/5/92) – Britain pays homage to emigré craftsmen
• Animations (year 17 no.6)  – front cover illustration
• Japan’s Commercial Photo, Genco Sha (no.355) – Mirror of Memory – Kumi Kono
• Woodcarving (no.4) – Sculptures That Move
• Korea’s Art &Crafts (no.2)  – Jan Zalud – Automata Full of Humour and Sorrow
• Crafts (no.122) – back cover full scale illustration
• Times Magazine (1/2/97) – Masters of their Craft
• ES magazine (30/4/99) Trade secrets
• Times Magazine (19/2/00) – about face –Stephanie Churchill
• TES Friday (18/10/02) – Joyful Jonah defies prophets of doom
• Crafts (no.208) – Just a Wind Up –Karoline Newman