Danielle's frightened-looking miniature

Upon reading the task brief, Danielle is clearly excited about being assigned a task where she can demonstrate her craft skills once more.

As she fashions the skeleton of her miniature by bending wire with some pliers, she explains that she had previously made a miniature of her grandad's German shepherd dog, Shep, riding a lawnmower. In homage to her own previous work, she poses her miniature so that it is sat on top of a toy tractor.

She makes the figure from white modelling clay, which she then paints, and gives some of her own hair.

In the studio, she admits that the hair didn't work as she had hoped, since it didn't "fall luxuriously into a wig", but remained laid rigidly across the miniature's head, looking "quite creepy".

Tom Gleeson awards her first place, for the memories of "her weird Queensland upbringing".

(Written by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)