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Starting out as an experimental performance group in the early 1970s, Forkbeard Fantasy evolved across the years into the much loved theatre, film, exhibition and animation company it remains today.

Alongside Forkbeard’s unique and extraordinary stage shows, with their pioneering mix of film, animation, music, automata and wild mechanical sets, there has always co-existed the ‘living’ interactive exhibitions, the poetry performance, the film shows, fire shows and street events, the books, the stand-alone animation films and the outdoor sculptures, all bearing the Forkbeard trademark mix of humour, magic, technological invention and innovation.

Today, after over four decades of touring, Forkbeard has centred itself at its Waterslade Studios in Devon where the same group of artists who started it all continue to take on commissions - sculpures, films and animations – or just  work  they enjoy.

'''Forkbeard Fantasy occasionally open their own Museum doors to reveal a living, whirring foray through the company’s amazing 45 year history, now permanently installed at Forkbeard’s Waterslade Studios in Devon, with new creations regularly added. It’s a living archive providing a window on a whole era of cultural change across the arts.'''