Eyeball Dude - Classic Marionette Puppet

Eyeball Heads 

Taking as inspiration the surreal aesthetic of avant-garde prog-rockers The Residents who took to the stage with giant plastic eyeballs for heads, I discovered another iteration for my favourite, enduring motif, the Cyclops. As their name suggests, the Eyeball makes for a strange yet striking visage and an extremely effective marionette to manipulate. Costumed from the textured scraps and rovings of preceding puppet generations, the range of kookiness and colour is a fun world to dive into. Recommended for everyone who feels a little different!

Squeaky Classics: Original designs for all ages from our early roots til now!

The first puppet I ever made in our standard 6-string design was a little Mummy marionette, a simple bandaged affair which utilised the weight of the clay pieces and the meagre costuming to create a proper functioning prototype which remains the core design behind most of our work to date. By working with some basic archetypes and alternating through gender, age and cultural influences, I developed a classic range of differing characters which are a continuing part of the Squeaking Tribe canon today. As familiar as these characters are to me now, I keep the joy alive by incorporating more details and personal quirks than I did in the past, so each one still retains its own unique identity. For the budget-minded, these are a good starting point to gauge your interest without betting the farm. A perfect launch-pad for the young ones, too!

Marionette in doll form is approximately 25cm in height or 60cm when strung.