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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 1st APRIL 2021: DAY 368

4/1/2021

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'Floorplan', situation-specific installation, space and hand cut text, Finnish Academy of Fine Art Gallery, Helsinki, 2010.

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'Floorplan', situation-specific installation, space and hand cut text,
Finnish Academy of Fine Art Gallery, Helsinki, 2010.

At my MA Show in September 2009 my work was noticed by the Finnish artist and pedagogue Petri Hytönen who invited me to create a new piece of work for an exhibition, “Manu”, which he was curating at the Finnish Academy of Fine Art in Helsinki in March 2010; this exhibition was a great success and wonderful opportunity which has allowed my work to be exhibited and considered in a significant international gallery for the first time.

“Naomi Lethbridge shows a lot in her drawings, especially that which is not shown. Antony Clarkson shows through everyday elements how the normal everyday can be beautiful in an installation. And so does Sean Green with her pretty organic and conceptual works - even in trying to avoid too much extra thinking. Clara Casian with her sculptures and animation shows how a simple idea can give a lot.” Petri Hytönen, 'Manu' Exhibition Catalogue.

Floorplan proved to be something of a welcome departure from my usual modus operandi in that as due to its location I was unable to visit the gallery in advance; this lead to me having to establish my usual rapport with the space in a new and unexpectedly interesting way. My relationship with the gallery had to be garnered from photographs of previous exhibitions and a pdf copy of a floor plan of the building, all 2-dimensional sources; something that I had never done before and something that initially concerned me. I didn’t at first believe that I would develop the kind of intimacy with the space necessary to create a piece to work in harmony with it.

As it turned out nothing could have been further from the truth, I realised whist considering the distance, both physical and mental, between myself and the gallery that it was this very distance that was my fundamental relationship with it, the mental gap was bridged. I had been supplied with other people’s photographs and a plan drawn up by another person and they gave me an insight into the space and indeed the piece that I had not worked with before. In the end the floor plan of the gallery came to dominate my ideas, its flatness, it having travelled to me from somebody else these I realised were the qualities of the relationship that I wanted my piece to take to the exhibition.

To be continued...
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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