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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 22ND MAY 2021: DAY 419

5/22/2021

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Rückenfigur, staffage, spectator or observer? Where do I stand?
The ‘accessories’ of an artistic composition (companion).

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Rückenfigur, staffage, spectator or observer?
The ‘accessories’ of an artistic composition (companion). Where do I stand?
 
My recent exhibition of ‘Personal Topographies: work from the Self-Isolation Residency’ at Dunoon Burgh Hall has provided me with an inordinate opportunity for reflection on how my working process has and is evolving. Indeed, seeing so much of my new work together in exhibition context has become the catalyst for what I hope will facilitate a better sympathy and expression of my preoccupations.

One theme which has always been of concern to me is how the spectator/observer interacts with my, or indeed with any, art works. In the 21st century such encounters with art can take many forms, which can be both healthy and unhealthy in their elucidation of the philosophies being expounded within the work; by ‘unhealthy’ I am referring to the inevitable frequent misinterpretation of work by a spectator owing its poor mediation. Via this latest exhibition encounter with my own work I have once again initiated a revision, or perhaps revisit into, what has been a long-time concern for me as artist, the question posed to the observer of ‘where do I stand?’

To be continued...

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Colm docherty
5/25/2021 04:01:01 am

I often see " abstract" work with no title or something vague. Its difficult to understand whether or not someone has succeed in communicating what they intended if I don't know.
In the past I've had work bought by people who's interpretation of the work was not mine. Once a work is shown it somehow stops being "mine" and moves into the public realm. We cannot control others perception which i suppose is what marketing tries to do. Applies to everything really,how someone dresses, speaks or applies their values.

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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