The Coffee monkey isn’t your average sock monkey – not so much a cute stuffed toy but more a Lewis Carroll character escaped from the page, a bit-player in Shock-Headed Peter with ideas above its station.
He began life as an exploration of the idea of home, a toy made from discarded socks and a representation of my own position of being the home for the coffee monkey – all of us have a monkey on our back, neither good nor bad but always there. He’s sinister because we all relate to the simian, there’s a clumsiness to the shaping, he’s made in the same manner as a witches poppet.
So each poppet monkey has a little of their owners personality, together with a personality of their own. So far they have represented their owners loves of tea, the Xbox and Gin, but it’s the coffee monkey that everyone has the sweetest spot for.
Vicky Roden 