Mr Colling's talent with matchsticks has already seen him stage an exhibition of his models at Llanelli library.

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Finding fame making wax deathmasks of those executed in the French Revolution, she later came to Britain where she set up a permanent exhibition of wax models of contemporary people.

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To open the exhibition, the mall invited two models wearing orchid-strewn hats to pose for photographs with pythons coiled around their arms.

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An important exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven explores these issues through sketches, drawings, photographs and models selected from the Stirling archives owned by the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal.

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