This site is meant to give an overview of my work over the last 40 years and also serves as a digital archive.
Having originally studied painting I have spent most of my time making 3D work in the conventional sense of individual objects or groups of objects, as pieces to be photographed, actual installations or, for the last fifteen years, virtual objects. These works take the form of 3D abstract animated movies and prints. This digital work concentrates on making non-narrative animated time-based images which are to be shown in dedicated art spaces or festivals. I was recently an international guest at an Digital Arts Festival in New York.
My work can be found in various private collections throughout the world.
I have recently moved to Cumbria to concentrate on my work having taken early retirement from an academic post in London.
Please contact me if you need more information about the work.
Andrew Greaves August 2008
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“jonah” is my second collaboration with the writer Brian Marley.
The following short section may give some indication of the piece.
A short compressed selection from a 12′34″ 3D animated movie completed in 2007.
An abstract form basks in its own reflection whilst floating in a mirrored environment.
Sound Ian Willcock
Size 1280 x 720 PAL HD
A short compressed selection from a 5′ 43″ 3D animated movie made in 2007.
A fleshy form moves (dances) to a distorted tune.
Size 1280 x 720 PAL HD
A short compressed selection from a 8′ 35″ 3D digital animation made in 2007.
It is an example of my preoccupation with synthetic, formal elements which co-exist within a natural landscape. These forms contrast with their environment and create ambiguous scale and functional references. Are they signifiers of inhabitation past or present and is the landscape terrestrial?
Original size 1280 x 720 HD PAL
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A short compressed selection from a 13′ 59″ movie completed in 2007.
This piece combines 3D animation with digital video footage and can be seen as a representation of part of a long journey where the traveler falls in and out of dreamlike states - where normal consciousness is replaced by fantasy.
Original size 720 x 576 PAL 4:3
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This is a short compressed selection from a 12′ 11″ 3D animated movie made in 2007.
“simmentalTide” takes as its starting point my recent move to the British countryside and seeing
with fresh eyes the spectacle of domestic animals grazing.
The resultant photographic images are combined with 3D animated forms to construct this work.
Original size 1280 x 720 HD PAL
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The visual structure of “rorrim” consists of two separately made images which, when combined, give the illusion of an abstract landscape and it’s reflection. The viewer, through their own associative references, makes links which give a cohesion to the otherwise separate elements. “rorrim” inhabits the liminal space between representation and recognition; it is an interior drama of revelation and reflection in which the viewer sees only their own constructing (and constructed) gaze rather than the visual surface behind which such processes ae normally hidden from conscious view. The soundtrack reflects this interiority; most events are placed in the centre of the stereo range - as if they are emanating from within the viewer’s head. They are perhaps the accompaniment to contemplation rather than adjuncts of the graphic phenomena. This short extract is from the first section of the seamless tryptic.
PAL 4:3 720 x 576 Length 24 mins. 51 secs. 2006
This is a short compressed selection from a 35′ 50″ 3D animated movie made in 2006.
“luxflux”, as the title denotes, consists of a series of virtual animated environments lit by changing light sources. Some are lit by white light whilst others lights are coloured. The lights describe the environments as well as being perceived as forms themselves.
Size 960 x 720 PAL
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This is a short compressed selection from a 13′ 42″ 3D digital animation made in 2004.
It is a collaboration between myself and the writer Brian Marley.
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