Figure maker
Dan Lavender
A living builder whose work goes as heavily equipped as anything being made now.
Dan Lavender is living and working. He runs a joint line called Inspired Worx with Bill Nelson that appears on both their sites.
The figure photographed here has a specific history. The collection sent Lavender a casting of Cecil Wigglenose II, a McElroy face, with an explicit instruction that the result was not to be a McElroy replica: no cradle, no typewriter keys, but Lavender's own wooden head stick and his own style throughout, in whatever time he had.
The mechanics
The Cecil Wigglenose II figure carries all-around moving eyes with eyelids that follow and blink, raising and lowering eyebrows, side-to-side self-centering eyes, wiggling ears, an upper-lip sneer and a lower jaw, on a carved wooden head stick.
Status Living
The figures
31 photographs across 1 cataloged object.
Cecil Wigglenose 31 photographs
- Materials
- carved wood
- Movements
- self-centering eyes; side-to-side eyes; tongue; head stick
Recorded owner Ventriloquist Central Collection as recorded on the source page, not current ownership
Photo: Dan Willinger / Ventriloquist Central (ventriloquistcentral.com)