Exhibition exploring animation through the work of Kelan Andrews and Petra Szemán, featuring commissions and material from the Cosgrove Hall Films Archive.
Supermedium opened at Castlefield Gallery on Sunday 11 October, and it runs through to Sunday 31 January. It's an exhibition that asks what it actually means to animate, and it does that by putting animation's past, present and future in the same room at a time when new technologies are starting to overshadow analogue processes.
The show brings together commissions and existing work by Kelan Andrews and Petra Szemán, and they work across a broad spread: video, sculpture, stop-motion, digital animation, augmented reality and human-scale animatronics. The way they combine them blurs the line between the physical and digital realms, so you'll find life-sized animatronics, claymation and digital avatars all under one roof.
Their work sits alongside material from the Cosgrove Hall Films Archive, the legendary Manchester studio that was home to some of the UK's most beloved hand-drawn and stop-motion animations. If you grew up with Danger Mouse (1981-92), The BFG (1989), The Wind in the Willows (1983-90) or Postman Pat (2004-2008), you'll recognise the studio behind them. Seeing those archives next to Andrews and Szemán's newer work is a good way to see how the medium has shifted from the hand-drawn and stop-motion of the past to the digital and augmented tools of today.
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It's a long run, so you've got plenty of time to get over to Castlefield Gallery, 2 Hewitt St, M15 4GB, and it's free to visit.
