“A is for Anvil”
Roy Ananda
27 Oct → 11 Nov 2006

A is for Anvil examines the codes, conventions and peculiar logic of the cartoon world…a world where light bulbs signal flashes of inspiration, one’s heart leaps out of one’s chest at the sight of a prospective significant other and stars circle one’s head after a nasty knock. Ananda speculates on these fanciful conceits, translating them into sculptural objects. The slippage that occurs in this translation draws the artist into a fertile world of improvisation and making do. The resulting works are playful, poetic portals between the carton world and our own.

Roy Ananda is a visual artist based in Adelaide. His current practice is driven by the raucous, overstated physicality of slapstick and swashbuckle. In his daydreams he is to drawing and sculpture what Tintin is to journalism or what Indiana Jones is to archaeology.