Derham Groves » The everyday and the surreal

Vale Floppy, 1989 – 2010

derhamgroves — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:05:32 +0000

The Ron Mueck exhibition at the NGV

derhamgroves — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:11:19 +0000

Street Art in Brunswick

derhamgroves — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:00:17 +0000

Mum turns 90! Floppy is 101!! Ping learns to ride a bicycle at 53!!!

derhamgroves — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:59:59 +0000

Another year ticks by

derhamgroves — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:27:54 +0000

Throw a Steak on the Barbie

derhamgroves — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:44:33 +0000

Vale Studs Terkel, 1912 – 2008

derhamgroves — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:05:20 +0000

More Barbie and Ken Meet Sherlock Holmes dolls

derhamgroves — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:41:01 +0000

Paintings by Ping

derhamgroves — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:36:32 +0000

Barbie and Ken Meet Sherlock Holmes

derhamgroves — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:01:36 +0000

Recently a group of third-year architecture students at the University of Melbourne had to read a Sherlock Holmes story and then portray the victim in that story by altering the appearance of a Barbie or Ken doll. (I got this idea from the ‘Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death’, 18 dollhouse-sized dioramas of grisly crime scenes that were built by the International Harvester heiress Mrs. Frances Glessner Lee during the 1940s.) They produced a horrifying collection of dolls that had been bludgeoned, garroted, hanged, mauled, poisoned, scared, shot, stabbed and strangled. (The three featured dolls were constructed by Chen Gong, Nicholas Antoniou and Morsaleena Moytree Paruque.)