Central to Daniel Crooks practice is the idea of the ‘time slice’. By isolating and offsetting small slices of video footage Crooks treats the elements of time and space as a physical and malleable material. ‘Daniel Crooks: Motion Studies’ at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) until Sunday 25 October brings together a selection of…
‘Daniel Crooks: Motion Studies’ currently showing at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) until 25 October traces the Melbourne artist’s sublime ‘time slice’ projects, from his early works in digital video through to his more recent sculptural forms. ‘The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche.’ 1 Gaston Bachelard There is…
‘Daniel Crooks: Motion Studies’ acknowledges Crooks’s significant contribution to new media art in Australia and traces the emergence of his recent transition into sculptural forms from his early works in video art and photography through to the present day. Crooks is one of the leading contemporary artists working in moving image, his ‘time slice’ project elevates…
Melbourne-based artist Daniel Crooks explores the elasticity of time and space through his ‘time slice’ projects which isolate and offset small slices of video footage to create mesmerising studies of people and the world. More recently, his work has extruded into the third dimension, with the use of time as a physical medium. ‘Daniel Crooks:…
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