Silicon Pulp gets sand between its toes this August when - in conjunction with the Surfrider Foundation - it launches a wet and wild exhibition of the surfing lifestyle in Australian animation, design, caricature and cartooning. A long-overdue, first-of-its kind project, Tubular Cels features the work of Australia's most well-known surf artists. Surfers and the surfing lifestyle are depicted in mediums ranging from animation cels and animated videos to caricature portraits, cartoon strips and spots, oil and watercolour works - even cartoons created on ceramic plates! Surf cartoons? What the hell do cartoons and surfing have in common? Well, both arts provide stress-relieving pleasure for their aficionados. They can be executed with immense complexity, using expensive tools and at great cost - or achieve the same level of brilliance by combining simple creativity with cast-off materials found down the back of a shed. Both undertakings have been criticised for decades as causing pollution of the mind and delinquency in the young. Due to their monosyllabic use of words, surfing and cartoons have also been claimed to provide the worst examples of the downfall of the English language! Artists exhibiting works include:

• Mambo's Reg Mombassa (famed for his icons of Australian suburbia); Jim Mitchell (co-designer of the notorious Pauline Hanson "Redheads" shirt); and Gerry Wedd (top-selling cartoonist, remarkable ceramicist and jewellery designer);
• Australian Surfing Life 's Steve Cakebread (creator of the infamous Felch cartoon) and Steve Case (whose wonderful caricatures also feature in the Daily Telegraph);
• Ben Brown (Tracks cartoons, silverchair art and astonishing surfboard paintings);
• Rosco Kermode (globe-trotting legend from the wilds of West Australia);
• Gus Gordon (noted children's book illustrator and creator of the Mungbean cartoon);
• Heidi Ledwell (internationally popular Earth Nymph t-shirt and postcard designer);
• Mark Sutherland (prize-winning artist/animator, creator of legendary Gonad Man);
• Robbert Smit (special guest is renowned animation director of Footrot Flats, Blinkey Bill and The Magic Pudding).

The exhibition embraces wavebreaking cartoon art from the early 60s innocence of Murph the Surf (an American drop-in) to the 70s pop outrageousness of the legendary Captain Goodvibes and the 21st century hard-core cynicism of Felch and his desperate cronies. The show's curator is Jodi Adams, a veteran journalist and surf culture enthusiast who works as a volunteer media director/educator with the Surfrider Foundation. Tubular Cels will be launched on Friday August 17 2001 at 6.30pm, with awesome munchies generously provided by CHOW FOR NOW -

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