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The Athole House Studio
Self-Isolation Artist Residency
30th March 2020 - 7th November 2021

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Over my career I have taken part in many artist residencies in various parts of the world; I have even organised and run a residency program myself. 2020 has brought new challenges to us all, I however intend to treat these challenges as opportunities. With this in mind today, the first day of my self-isolation having arrived back from my studio in the Untied States last night, I I launch my new blog which will become an integral part of this website as I redesign is over the coming weeks.

Artist Residencies give artists the space and perhaps more importantly the time to make new work; I intend to treat my time in self-isolation in the same way that I would if I were on an artist residency in another studio in another part of the world. Athole House Studio maybe one of my home studios but for me it is a work space, and lets face it, we all now have the time.

The Self-Isolation Residency 19th April 2020: Day 21

4/19/2020

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Today has been another day of details and that judgement of what and what not to include. An early feature of today's work was defining the outlines and details of the bottle and glass on the desk; in many ways I think that these help to establish the level of detail for the whole painting. These are the types of objects that are so important to this painting, they are objects which I have specifically selected as being things that 'tell part of my story' as to who I am. In some ways it could be said that this painting success could be judged as to how much a person who doesn't know me could learn about me from this painting.

This train of thought makes me wonder if I could or should go further with the details that I include; and if I do chose to go further how would that information, those details, be transmitted? In many ways I'd love to be able to include more details, for instance, I intend to have a book open on the seat of the chair. The problem is on the scale of something like this painting there is no real way in which I can adequately express what that book is. The same with music, I am including my stereo to show that I am listening to music, but how do I express what music it is?

I have been thinking for a while that perhaps this idea of the self portrait needs to express  media other than painting; an installation might possibly be a better way to go, but I'm not sure if an installation of my studio would be enough to be of interest to people. I'm also not sure at what point the studio would end and the art work begin? It could be argued that my studio is already the art work in that it is  the installation,  butit is not an art work as such, it is an actually real, working space.

There is actually already a type of example of what I am talking about here and although it is in an art gallery,, and it is fascinating,  it is not a work of art. The Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin has a permanent 'installation' of Frances Bacon's studio. This is not a reconstruction, after his death all the contents of his studio where relocated to the gallery to form this 'display'. This does a lot of what I am thinking about for my piece, but for me it does have a problem that it in itself is not a work of art, although it could be thought of as a self portrait.  I think I will have to explore this further, but for more information on Frances Bacon's studio click  here.
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Colm Docherty
4/19/2020 06:25:12 pm

Whether or not an installation is an Art work is entirely up to you. The Bacon studio isn't intended to be where as Tracy Emins bed is. I would think an "artwork" is deliberately set up to express an idea by the Artist. Bacon might not even have approved. I think with the Palossi one in Edinburgh he was involved,could be wrong.

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  • CODEX
    • plane >
      • Apophenia: An Uncanny Presence.
      • Control(s)
      • Personal Topographies
      • The Self-Isolation Residency
      • Americana
      • Mauve Skies
      • Scotland
      • Selected Drawing & Paintings,
      • The Teaching Years
      • Spatial Paintings 2006-2008
      • Paintings 2006
    • mass >
      • The Blind Men and the Elephant.
      • Spatial Conceptions 2014 - 2022
      • Painted Objects
      • Autograph
      • The Newtonian Nightmare
    • volume >
      • Enso nest
      • Someone else's storey
      • Shower, The Process Residency 2013,
      • Concrete Haiku
      • Atypical
      • The Murder of Crows.
      • Composition in White (Painting), The Breathe Residency:
      • Composition in White (Sculpture), The Breathe Residency:
      • Floorplan
      • Paper Scissors Rock
      • Pilgrimage
      • The Fifth Column
      • Tension
      • Arch
    • blogs >
      • The Self-Isolation Residency: Blog 2020-2021
      • Apophenia: An Uncanny Presence. 2022
    • artist statement
    • cv & education
    • contact