# animate! » Editorial » The Artists, The Animators Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2005/12/the-artists-the-animators/ Discovery terms: animate! archive The following is the archived page text; discovery terms above are separately sourced metadata. Archive status: restored in 2026; historical calls, deadlines and services are closed. Originally published: 2005-12-03 Original publication timestamp: 3 December 2005 at 10:41 am --- ## [The Artists, The Animators](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2005/12/the-artists-the-animators/) *The Animators* exhibition, at [Angel Row Gallery](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2005/11/the-animators-exhibition-at-angel-row-gallery-nottingham/) Nottingham, [Spacex Gallery](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2005/12/the-animators-at-spacex-gallery-exeter/) Exeter and [Ferens Art Gallery](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2006/05/the-animators-at-ferens-art-gallery-hull/) Hull, features seven UK artists who make a variety of different kinds of artworks, including paintings, sculptures, photographs and live events. What they have in common is that they all also make animations. The exhibition is timely. Computer software packages now enable artists to work spontaneously with digital imagery, and it has never been easier to set still images in motion. ![Paul Morrison Black Dahlias, 2004, courtesy of Alison Jacques Gallery, London](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/wp-content/paulmorrison_blackdahlias01.jpg) [Paul Morrison](http://www.alisonjacquesgallery.com/morrison_paintings.php) Black Dahlias, 2004, courtesy of Alison Jacques Gallery, London The term animation, usually associated with cartoons that have been drawn or of models moved frame by frame, has also recently expanded to include many kinds of alterations to real-time film footage. It now incorporates ail manner of film and video that has been ‘messed about with’. Rapid edits and cuts, repeats and reversals, speedings-up and slowings-down, collage effects and digital manipulations are ail thought of as animation techniques. Artists, who tend to work experimentally with whatever medium they use, now often find their films categorised as animations. ![Dryden Goodwin Two Thousand and Three, 2003, courtesy Stephen Friedman Gallery, London](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/wp-content/drydengoodwin_2003_01.jpg) [Dryden Goodwin](http://www.drydengoodwin.com/) Two Thousand and Three, 2003, courtesy Stephen Friedman Gallery, London The gulf between animation and other kinds of art in this exhibition - sculptures, drawings, prints and photographs - is not as big as we might think. The artists have worked experimentally in these art forms too, investing their chosen materials with compelling and sometimes unexpected qualities. What began as blank and characterless paper, paint and clay, for example, now has a curious kind of ‘life’. In other cases, objects have been taken and adapted and anthropomorphised. The exhibition illustrates what it means when fine art - usually the stillest of all the art forms - begins to move. The work of each artist in *The Animators* is distinctive, but shared interests are discernible, the most prominent of which is, paradoxically, stillness. Angela Kingston, curator The artists represented in *The Animators* are Katy Dove, Paul Morrison, Vong Phaophanit & Claire Oboussier and three who have made animate! commissions [Ann Course](https://animate.org.uk/films/rottingartist/), [Simon Faithfull](https://animate.org.uk/films/13/) and [Dryden Goodwin](https://animate.org.uk/films/flight/). More details in animate! Events of the exhibition at [Angel Row Gallery](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2005/11/the-animators-exhibition-at-angel-row-gallery-nottingham/), 3 December 2005 - 4 February 2006, [Spacex Gallery](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2005/12/the-animators-at-spacex-gallery-exeter/) (special version of the exhibition with animations only), 17 December 2005 - 25 February 2006, and [Ferens Art Gallery](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2006/05/the-animators-at-ferens-art-gallery-hull/), 13 May - 2 July 2006. Archived form notice: animate! will moderate your comment before it goes online here Comments are closed; this form is kept as part of the archive.