Zoologically accurate, the animal puppets for THE HERDS convey the ferocity and beauty of nature - proud, elegant, highly alarmed but intensely graceful. Each puppet is crafted from renewable and recyclable materials that are easily available in each territory.
As the animals travelled they grew in number, starting with 15 in Kinshasa and growing to 100 in London and Manchester. Beginning with elephants, giraffes, gorillas, kudu, lions and vervet monkeys in Central Africa, new species joined as they migrated north, including wolves and deer in central Europe and moose and reindeer in Scandinavia.
THE HERDS puppets are designed in South Africa by Ukwanda Puppets and Designs Art Collective (Luyanda Nogodlwana, Siphokazi Mpofu, Sipho Ngxola), Craig Leo, Simon Dunckley, Hansie Visagie, Tundra Dunckley and Amir Nizar Zuabi.
