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Purchasing from this store means you are buying direct from the artist who designed and created these amazing things. The money you pay is going direct to him! No middle men, no sales people, no nonsense!
You are supporting an artist directly! Go You!.
Many of the items here are original works of art. Others are production pieces. Low run manufactured art multiples. Often these will be signed AP versions.
What is an AP? This blog explains!

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(Please note that average UK to USA shipping times are between 8 and 14 days).
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Website : www.mechtorians.com
Blog : www.brucewhistlecraft.com
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More about Doktor A.

(Doktor A (Right) with Guillermo Del Toro and some of his Mechtorians.)

Bruce Whistlecraft (A.K.A Doktor A) has become synonymous with the creation of Victorian Futurist style Robot characters.

Indeed, his popular ongoing Mechtorians series unravels the story of the retrobotic realm of Retropolis one artwork at a time.

Brass mustachioed scientists rub copper-plated elbows with polished metal bank managers, fairground hawkers and socialites in this fantastical realm where humans play no part.
A world whose inhabitants go robotically about their daily routine, playing out their part in a mimicked society modeled on a flimsy perception of an ideal world.

Every aspect of our own lives are reflected and filtered through the robot’s ill informed perception of what they are expected to be. Social hierarchy played out as theatre and consumer trends reflected as crippling exercises in vanity or peer pressure.

When machines try and duplicate our world the nonsense of the everyday is plain.

The Doktor’s work is an investigation of artifice.
From the physical actuality of pieces that look like complex automata, but are incapable of movement. Through the simulation of materials from other mediums. To the wider psychological and sociological constructs of what constitutes a person’s character and place in society.

Even the artist’s name is artificial.
Nothing is what it seems.

Having exhibited for the last ten years in gallery shows set as far a field as Los Angeles and Hong Kong, the Doktor’s works have found homes in high profile private art collections around the world and new pieces are keenly anticipated. His characters have also reached a wider audience through the medium of toys. Short run collectible figures take on the role of three dimensional art prints, with more rare editions being highly sought after.

Trained as an Industrial Modelmaker, Bruce has worked in many fields of the advertising and entertainment industry. A period of time working as a “blue-sky” concept designer with a leading UK toy development company, linked with his eight years as a gallery owner have combined to make him the unique artist he is today. Unlike many other artists in the “art-toy” world the Doktor is a toy maker turned artist. Rather than the more usual artist turned toy maker.

He works from his studio on the Yorkshire moors in the UK