“A is for Anvil”
Roy Ananda
27 Oct → 11 Nov 2006
Gallery 2

A red installation work.
Roy Ananda, 'A is for Anvil', 2006, installation view, West Space.

A is for Anvil is a new body of work by Roy Ananda.

Here, Ananda 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.

A sculptural work at the corner of a space.
A sculptural work with train and stars at the corner of a space.
A sculptural train carrying three sculptural stars on a wood-based train track.
A sculptural train carrying three sculptural stars on a wood-based train track.

Roy Ananda is an artist, writer, and educator practicing in Tarndanya/Adelaide. His objects, drawings, installations, texts, and videos variously celebrate popular culture, play, process, and the very act of making.