Technology
Keith Newstead obituary – The Guardian
Automata artist whose mechanical creations were widely exhibited and sold in huge numbers in kit form

Art and designAutomata artist whose mechanical creations were widely exhibited and sold in huge numbers in kit form
Keith Newstead, who has died aged 64 of cancer, was the UKs pre-eminent maker of automata artistic mechanical devices that are built to look like human or animal figures and which give the illusion of acting as if under their own power.
Newstead had a straightforward, even humble relationship with his chosen artform. Although his work drew on a rich tradition of makers of kinetic art…
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