DRAW Space is excited to present HIGH-FIVE / lo-fi, animation in Australia and the UK.
Curated by Alex Karaconji, HIGH-FIVE / lo-fi is a cross-cultural dialogue between Australian and UK animation artists, presented via an exhibition and screenings at DRAW Space – a platform for experimental drawing – in Newtown. The exhibition celebrates impractical and idiosyncratic ways of making art. The gallery will screen a selection of the artist’s analogue animations, alongside an exhibition of their original drawings.
Participating artists:
Karolina Glusiec @karolina.glusiec – UK
Dirk de Bruyn @urni2c – AUS
Edwin Rostron @edwinrostron2 – UK
Nicci Haynes @niccihaynes – AUS
Ross Hogg @mrrosshogg – UK
Martin Jackson – UK
Kate Kurucz @katekurucz – AUS
Richard Lewer @richard_lewer – AUS
Peter Millard @hellopetermillard – UK
Jamie Temple @templeprints - UK
About the exhibition, by Edwin Rostron
Meaning, for me, is connection. A thing has meaning for me when it has a connection with another thing.
Gerald Murnane, The Still-Breathing Author
All of the films in the exhibition HIGH-FIVE / lo-fi at DRAW Space are united by different forms of animated drawing, but also by ideas – or questions – of connection and disconnection. A yearning to connect with memories and the past haunts several of the films. Other works address feelings of separation from other people and the physical spaces around us. And there are works which forge dynamic formal connections - between drawing and the body, or between sound and image.
Through drawing, the journey from the mind to the page is so quick and direct that the creative impulse can bypass the rational mind. By extending drawing into animation, the process of creating, recollecting or working out can be presented on the screen in front of us, in a seemingly autonomous dance or stream of images. We are joined with the artist through a visualisation of their thinking, or feeling. These animations may be fleeting connections in a fragmentary world, but they are precious and heartfelt, made with care, tenderness and conviction.
A page from the sketchbook of British animator Karolina Glusiec. Photo: Karolina Glusiec