Volume

A festival of sound and vision
Art Gallery of New South Wales
22 Sep – 8 Oct 2023

Evelyn Lambart

Volume

A festival of sound and vision
Art Gallery of New South Wales
22 Sep – 8 Oct 2023

Evelyn Lambart

A person with pinned up dark hair and light skin seated at a desk painting a world map.

Evelyn Lambart, photo: National Film Board of Canada

Evelyn Lambart (1914–99) was an experimental animator whose work with Norman McLaren forged new approaches to visualising sound on screen. The pair created frenetic, fizzing soundtracks by carving directly into celluloid with pencils, pens, brushes and razor blades. Originally intended as a way to avoid paying for music rights, Lambart and McLaren’s hand-etched scores appear as the mid-century analogue predecessors of 8-bit music.