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Inside the House of Automata in Forres, which has a growing global reputation for restoring automata and supplying them to movies.

If youre lucky, the friends you make at 18 remain friends for a lifetime. This has certainly been the case for two gauche young art students who met on their first day at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) in 1976. From the moment Lex McFadyen, who grew up in the Ayrshire village of Symington, and Madeleine Hand, a townie from Motherwell, introduced themselves, their friendship grew. The pair went on to share a studio, live in the same Glasgow flat, get to know each others family and partners ...