THE sculptors who brought us Beaufort Street’s nudie animals on a bike are in town for a new exhibition featuring the popular Dogman and Rabbitgirl characters.
Gillie and Marc use the strange creatures to try to spread a little love throughout the world.
“It’s a very unusual match but amazingly a match made in heaven: If people can embrace these freakish hybrids, why can’t we accept our differences?” Gillie asks.
The exhibition Kiss Me is about celebrating all sorts of kisses, not just highly airbrushed fashion shoot embraces.
Their dog and rabbit sculptures can be found in cities worldwide, but they’ve found Perth really open to their more unusual nude works. Recently when installing a rabbit and dog sculpture at a Sydney shopping centre, buyers were apparently shocked when Dogman showed up with full anatomical correctness down below.
“They rang us up immediately and said ‘there’s a penis!’ and we said ‘yes there is”. A local business council gathered to worry over what to do and, in a decision to make a mediaeval pope cry hallelujah, they “voted to chop off the penis,” Marc sighs.
Kiss Me is at Lynton & Kay Galleries until March 3, at 1/137 St Georges Terrace. Price of entry is a kiss.
by DAVID BELL
Perth Voice Interactive 
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