Atreides Sculpture Works is the residence of Steven Saunders and Cristina Salvoldi's artistic outings. Welcome to our world of multimedia sculpture works.

 

30 November 2011

Cristina is currently in New Zealand at the Weta Workshop working on various projects. She can still be contacted via email.



Her mask work for Benchmarks was a nominee in ‘Best Puppet Design’ at the Handspring Puppetry Awards in September. See article here.




10 August 2011

Pictures of Cristina’s masks for the theatre production ‘Benchmarks’ which premiered at the Grahamstowm Festival in May can now be seen in the Workshop portfolio .




28 April 2011

The ‘Ribena-British Blackcurrants’ commercial-for which we built a forced perspective british countryside miniature -can now be viewed here. This was another collaboration with ‘Shy the Sun’. For still shots go to  Workshop portfolio.


Cristina is currently designing and fabricating masks for a local  theater production called ‘Benchmarks’ through ‘FTH:K-listen with your eyes’.




2 March 2011
We have just finished building miniatures for ‘Ribena-British Blackcurrants’ commercial. This was another collaborative project with ‘Shy the Sun’. Pictures will follow soon.

Cristina built a functional ship-prop for the Opera ‘The Flying Dutchman’ which was performed at the Artscape at the end of January. View pictures here .




1 December 2010

Steven is currently at the Weta Workshop  in New Zealand working on various projects. He can still be contacted via  email.




11 November 2010

The Bunraku puppet built by Cristina can now be seen in the theatre play ‘Wombtide’  which is currently playing at the Baxter until the 5th December.Click here to view pictures.




14 October 2010

Our collaboration between ‘BlackGinger’ and ‘Shy the Sun’ for Ogilvy JHB and Mnet can now be viewed  here. Our team produced miniature sets that appear in all the shots on both commercials. For stills of the miniatures go to Workshop portfolio.




30 July 2010

A positive review posted by the South African Journal of Science about our work done on the African Dinosaurs Exhibit at the Iziko Natural History Museum.




6 June 2010

Cristina has completed her Bronze Mule Sculpture commission. Pictures can be viewed in Cristina’s portfolio.

She has also just completed a lifesize rod puppet for the local theatre production ‘Womb Tide’.

The african dinosaur exhibit is now open to the public at the Iziko Museum in Cape Town. View some progress pictures in our workshop portfolio



19 March 2010

 

The african dinosaur exhibit at the Isiko Natural History Museum will be opening at the end of May.

 

We are collaborating with Shy the Sun on a new project for which we are building various miniature sets.

 

Steven has been involved in creating some new puppets for ZA News.




5th Feb 2010

Cristina is currently exhibiting one of  her Berlin sculptures in the Group exhibition ‘Namibia to the power of 4′ at the Rathaus Galerie-Reinickendorf  in Berlin. It is organized by p.art.ners Berlin-Windhoek.

She is currently working on two Bronze commissions for a Namibian client.