Graphite: Animated Traces

Graphite: Animated Traces profiles the material and cultural
history of graphite as a creative medium, with close attention
to its important role in contemporary art and animation.
Animation scholar Alla Gadassik teases out the medium’s
temperament and significance by turning to the unfolding and
provisional status of the drawn moving image, considering
graphite as a medium of emergent thought, contemplation,
tender intimacy and impermanence.

What ways of knowing does graphite enable as a drawing
medium? How does animating with graphite – making moving
images through extended and repetitive acts of drawing –
allow us to understand the world differently? Responding with
vivid analysis of pencil drawings by celebrated artists such as
Georges Seurat, Vija Celmins, Park Seo-Bo and Jasper Johns, as
well as animated films by Amy Kravitz, Ryo Orikasa, Alexandra
Ramires and ten other artists, Graphite: Animated Traces offers
a richly detailed portrait of an everyday material we often take
for granted.



Editors: Zara Stanhope and Anna Briers
Series Editor, editions 1-5: Paul Brobbel
Copy Editor: Gwynneth Porter
Proofreader: Marie Shannon
Design: Kalee Jackson
Printer: Pivotal
ISBN: 978 1 98 854322 2
87 Pages
11.5 x 17.8 cm
Published by Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre. © 2024