Curator Tour - Supermedium: Kelan Andrews and Petra Szemán

Supermedium features new commissions and existing work by Kelan Andrews and  Petra Szemán, alongside items from the legendary Manchester animation studio Cosgrove Hall Films Archive. The artists’ new works are developed in dialogue with the archive that is home to items from some of the UK’s most iconic and beloved hand-drawn and stop motion animations – Danger Mouse (1981-92) The BFG (1989), The Wind in the Willows (1983-90) and Postman Pat (2004 to 2008) to name just a few. 

Both artists blur physical and digital realms, working across video, sculpture, stop-motion animation, digital animation, augmented reality, and animatronics. Showing archive material alongside new commissions, the exhibition will open up a dialogue between animation – past, present and future. At a time when digital technologies often overshadow analogue processes, Kelan Andrews and Petra Szemán explore what can be gained by pushing the limits of both.

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• Install photography of Supermedium: Kelan Andrews and Petra Szemán, Castlefield Gallery, 2026. courtest of Jules Lister