24 Frames is a collaboration between Peter and Felix Adsett, father and son with backgrounds in painting and film respectively. This installation arose from ongoing discussions about how film and painting could converse through the shared site of Quality.

Integral to this was that their making, the paintings and the film, would be undertaken in this space.

The result is a series of 24 brushmarks made by Peter and filmed by Felix. Peter’s brushmarks reflect 24 versions of a repeated action, with each result changed by slight differences in pressure and position.

This is filmed by Felix using a camera capturing 1500 frames per second that reveal these variations, including details almost imperceptible in the final product, such as the initial quantity of paint at the tip of the brush.

In its entirety, 24 Frames embodies different relationships to time that are somewhat at odds with the mediums of the work.

Felix’s film could be mistaken as a still image, its movement only just noticeable, that rewards our patience only in our waiting.

Peter’s paintings are dynamic and quick, and gesture to an action and decision honed by forty years of practice. In these practices, Felix and Peter’s unhurried collaborative process reflects a slowing down of time and celebration of the basic principles of their disciplines.

This project was a collaboration between Quality, Melbourne VIC and PAULNACHE, Gisborne NZ in association with the artists from Thursday 14th August – Sunday 24th August 2025.

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