Silicon Pulp, Sydney's small but stylish animation and cartoon gallery, gets sand between its toes when it launches a wet and wild exhibition of the surfing lifestyle in Australian animation, comic art, illustration, 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!