Since around 1988, Marshall White has been making animations alongside his drawings, paintings, collages, prints, sculptures, assemblages theatrical sets, e.t.c. He has a long history of collaboration with artists from various fields for exhibitions, theatrical events, films and installations.
We shared a darkroom in Melbourne in the early 1970s, after finishing our studies at the VCA (Victorian College of the Arts). We made experimental films, hand-processing standard 8 and 16mm film. We explored time-lapse, cut-out animation, scratching and painting directly onto the celluloid. Most of the films we made self-destructed after repeated screenings in galleries.
In the 1980’s, we independently began using computers to animate, and showed some of this work together in the show, Art x Numbers, Gallery101, 1993.
Visiting Marshall tonight, I saw his recent animated work: Backwash and About Time. Humans, houses and cars dance among the natural forms of landscapes.
He showed me ways he is devising for displaying animations as moving pictures on a wall – with small flat screens mounted into a frame, with speakers mounted inside.
The small display units, he said, are about $A100 each, and play Quicktime movies and Mpegs from a memory stick.
He’ll be showing his latest work with Luban White and Pauline Meade
at Fitzroy Gallery, 274 Fitzroy St Fitzroy 3065 (03) 9417 3284
Tuesday – Sunday, 27 October – 8 November 2007.
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I see A book like this as a nifty way to publish words, drawings and animations.
It’s a beautiful little thing.