Glynn Urquhart is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with animation. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, his work deals with themes surrounding the physical, the digital, and the spaces that exist between the two. He has had his work shown at solo and group art shows locally around Melbourne, as well as animated short films screened at film festivals internationally. Projection work of his has also been shown at White Night, Gertrude St Projection Festival, and West Projections.

“Cilia” is a series of new 3D animated video works that playfully experiments with colour, form, and texture to create abstract organisms that float, spin, and dance in an airy ethereal realm. Taking inspiration from Australian native flora and cell organelles, these creations blur the lines between macro and micro, alive and inert, biological and machine. Elements of physical reality that are familiar to us are subverted in this new realm. Gravity shifts. Hair is sentient. Glass wiggles as though it were made of jelly. Through the use of projection, an alleyway in the CBD becomes a window into this world and we are invited to consider where this space exists. Does it feel familiar? Could these creatures exist? Or is it pure abstraction, alien and strange?