Tom and Molly started Arts Republic in 2000 making public art. We now specialise in kinetic sculpture powered by wind, water and sun. We like to use recycled materials such as plastic bottles - fizzy drinks bottles are light, tough and waterproof, perfect for wind sculpture. What amazing things they are, they last for years and yet we use them once, for a quick swig and then throw them away.
We also make quirky machines called automata and donation boxes. These are like 3D moving cartoons that comment on life as we know it. Made by blending papier-mâché and microcomputer technology, automata are the antidote to this impersonal machine-made world. Even with super-real computer games, once you have experienced an automaton, interacted with it, you never forget it.
Being seen every day in museums, parks and school playgrounds, we feel it’s a privilege that potentially our art connects with so many.
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Automata/donation boxes
These are interactive machines, like miniature theatres that tell a story with movement, lighting and sound effects. Previously shown at Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, Covent Garden and the V&A Museum, Bethnal Green, we now have them at The Science Museum, London, Amazonia in Great Yarmouth and Kent Wildlife Trust Visitor Centre.
Sculpture
Wind and solar kinetic sculpture, made for parks, theatres and schools.
Workshops
We have a 15 year history of conducting workshops for all ages. We run them in schools, festivals, galleries and museums.
