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Details
- Date
- 2004
- Media category
- Time-based art
- Materials used
- single channel digital video animation, colour, sound
- Edition
- 1/5
- Dimensions
- duration: 00:05:30 mins, aspect ratio 4:3
- Signature & date
Signed DVD, black fibre-tipped pen "James Lynch ...". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of ARTAND 2019. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 133.2019
- Copyright
- © James Lynch
- Artist information
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James Lynch
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About
James Lynch is renowned for rendering his friend’s dreams in surreal video works that combine hand-drawn animation with live-action film. Lynch’s, I was running and running …, is based his friend Lisa’s dream. In it, a girl (presumably Lisa) runs through the streets of Melbourne with a moka coffee pot, stopping when she meets Lynch and a group of people holding empty mugs. Lynch often appears in his dream works; in this regard, they are uncanny and collaborative self-portraits stemming from his friend’s unconscious.
Lynch explains: ‘In some ways these are narratives based on an example of the unconscious process and how connected we are [1]’. Lynch reputedly spent 6 months animating this work, hand-drawing each frame with textas and pencils.
1. James Lynch quoted in Ashely Crawford, Art & Australia, vol 43, no 4, winter 2006, p 640
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Art & Australia collection 2003-2013, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 08 Dec 2012–17 Feb 2013
Art & Australia collection 2003-2013, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, , 23 Nov 2013–26 Jan 2014
Art & Australia collection 2003-2013, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, 08 Mar 2014–04 May 2014
Art & Australia collection 2003-2013, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, 17 May 2014–13 Jul 2014
Art & Australia collection 2003-2013, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 16 Aug 2014–28 Sep 2014
Art & Australia collection 2003-2013, Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich, 01 Nov 2014–21 Dec 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Claire Armstrong, Art and Australia (Vol. 43, No. 3), Sydney, Mar 2006-May 2006, 640, back cover.
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Natasha Bullock, Anne Landa award for video and new media arts, Sydney, 2006, 23.
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Brenda L Croft and Rachel Kent, Current: contemporary art from Australia and New Zealand, 2006, 172.
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Max Delany, NEW05: Mutlu Çerkez, Destiny Deacon, Mira Gojak, James Lynch, Stuart Ringholt, Kathy Temin, Southbank, 2005, 7, 61. cat.no. 6
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Eleonora Triguboff (Editor), Art and Australia collection awards projects 2003-2013, Sydney, 2012, 32, 33 (colour illus.).
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