The Hunter

The Hunter is an intricate paper diorama that comes to life through projected animations, music and sound effects. When the intricately cut paper model illuminates, tiny shadow figures seem to appear behind the diorama in order to depict a silent fable about the cruelty of human conduct and the ability to repent our actions. The Hunter is a gallery installation that tells a 15 min narrative on a loop for a maximum of 10 people at a time.

Commissioned by and developed for the Royal Shakespeare Company and later adapted for the Enchanted Parks, Sprite Symphony is a magical installation using projections and sound to create a beautiful yet dark display of fairies that have been trapped in jam jars and are trying to escape their glass cages. The fairies knock and tap on their jars and thereby create a polyphonic musical composition. The sprites were exhibited in a Victorian display cabinet in the RSC theatre foyer in Stratford upon Avon throughout winter 2013, they also featured in the windows of the park keeper‘s shed at the Enchanted Parks in December 2013.

Psycho features a scene lifted straight from the iconic movie, and re-created using paper and light. The vignette retells the pivotal moment in ‘Psycho’ when the female character is stabbed to death by an unknown assailant in the shower. But in the McGuire’s version, the violent murder is witnessed by the audience through the shadows in the windows of the house where the crime takes place. This adaptation to paper and light became a Vimeo staff pick in 2012.

Commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Haunted Dress is an installation using theatre couture, projections and sound to tell the gruesome story of a beautiful but savage fairy queen who seduced a man into madness. The immersive installation consists of a wedding dress on a mannequin which is brought to life through video projections and a narrative soundtrack.

Originally commissioned and developed for theRoyal Shakespeare Company as an installation in which 8 fairies create a polyphonic composition by knocking on the glass, Jam Jar Fairies have been developed into stand alone video sculptures. Each jar features a holographic projection of a hovering fairy sprinkling fairy dust by knocking on the glass‘ wall.

The Paper Architect is a theatre piece combining paper-craft, animation, projection and performance. It tells the story of an elderly model-maker who uses his paper creations as vessels for his imagination.
★★★★ “It’s a show with a gossamer touch that leaves you shivering.” Metro
★★★★ “What follows makes the jaw drop and the head whirl…” The Times

We’ll be working on our Hitchcock Trilogy, a variation on 3 iconic Hitchcock films sets made from paper and animated through light and video mapping. The series will feature 3 intricate paper models inspired by Rear Window and The Birds, and our award winning animated paper installation Psycho - Homage to Hitchcock.The paper models will lure its audience to take a voyeuristic look into Hitchcock’s iconic world of anticipation and terror.

And if all of the above doesn’t convince you to pop by then listen to the Saatchi gallery and Colossal who featured us last week, thus causing 50.000 new Vimeo hits and 7000 shares on Facebook.

“In an fascinating mix of papercraft, set design, and animation, artist duo Davy and Kristin McGuire bring stories to life inside these exquisitely built paper dioramas…”

See the full Colossal feature here:
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/05/theatrical-installations-mcguire/