"For decades, Ken Bonham, a retired teacher, has made memory boxes of places he has visited with his dressmaker wife of 54 years, Maggie, each made up of items they have collected on their travels or Bonham has made. Models of barns, castles and churches are also crammed into the property made from cork, balsa wood, styrofoam or 3D card elevations from Bonham's photos."
"When it was my wife's 60th birthday I asked her if she'd like a diamond ring and she said she'd sooner go to Italy. So we went to Italy and fell in love with Rome and all things Italia. So when I came back I made a display of them. Now, we'll go on holiday, collect postcards, tickets to museums, miniatures of various things, figures and things that are, I don't like the word, but iconic."
Ken Bonham is a retired teacher who has spent decades creating memory boxes and dioramas representing places he and his wife Maggie visited. The boxes assemble postcards, museum tickets, miniatures and handcrafted pieces into arranged scenes that hang on walls or stand on shelves. Bonham also builds models of barns, castles and churches using cork, balsa wood, styrofoam and 3D card elevations based on his photographs. Each Christmas he makes nativity scenes for neighbours. The work combines celebration of architecture, geography and art history with satire and draws on his experience teaching integrated studies to schoolchildren.
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