Watch the premiere of James Lake's animated film

Winner of the 2023 Adam Reynolds Award, James Lake spent a year collaborating with ourselves and Hot Knife Digital Media on Another Day, a brand new commission bringing Lake's cardboard sculptures to life through narrative animation. Watch now below!

What's the Adam Reynolds Award? Who is James Lake?



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This animation marks a significant progression in Lake’s artistic practice as well as the latest in a series of creative projects produced by Shape Arts and Hot Knife Digital Media. As part of the Adam Reynolds Award programme, which is designed to support the careers of disabled artists, Lake was awarded a £10k bursary alongside the opportunity to work on a major new creative project. 

About Another Day

Tucked away in the modern city are lonely lives, marked by dreary habits and routines, propped up by hopes, dreams, and fantasies. And sometimes art.

And what props up the artist but endless searching? Sifting through days and meals for the idea, the belief…the thing half-noticed, half-felt, half-recalled, until sometimes it comes. The spark, the moment when talent draws invisible engines into play. The moment when low goes high and even the dullest of materials may shine, and come forth.

Exploring the world of hand-modelled craft and sculpture through digital animation, this tender and uplifting film shines a light on the transformative nature of creativity through the eyes of a disabled man living at the edges of a world which threatens to entirely pass him by. 

Find out how we made the film Read our interview with James

We would like to thank Arts Council England and Garfield Weston Foundation for their continued support of the Adam Reynolds Award Programme and making this project possible. 

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Banner image: still from Another Day - copyright ©️ Shape Arts and James Lake, 2023

Description: still from a computer generated animation showing a close-up frame of a man's face. The man, who wears glasses, is entirely made from layered pieces of cardboard and appears to be stood in a domestic scene also constructed from cardboard. His gaze is fixed to the left, away from the audience.

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