The Magic Continues! (More Monkeys)

The larger monkeys are definitely more popular with men. These three created a stir when they went up to be galvanised in Lowestoft. The guys at BMT (British Metal Treatments)were falling over themselves to be the one to dip them and get a photo. We had a lot of offers to house them that day. Mind you those guys normally dip lengths of motorway central reservation so I suppose the monkeys couldn’t fail. (Click an image to start slide show)



These soldier monkeys were made around the time of the Iraq conflict when our intervention was being questioned. The idea is based on the three monkeys of speak no evil, see no evil, hear no evil, a sort of re-invention for our more muddled times. They wear a mixture of battle dress from khaki combats to colonial pith helmet - our primitive ancestors taking a primitive stand.