Rowland Emett (UK)

Website: http://www.rowlandemett.com/

English cartoonist and constructor of whimsical kinetic sculpture, Rowland Emett was born in London in 1906. He grew up and went to school in Birmingham, working in advertising after graduating from the Birmingham School of Art. The son of a businessman and amateur inventor, and the grandson of Queen Victoria’s engraver, Rowland turned in later life to designing and supervising the building of what he called his “things”.