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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 25th MARCH 2021: DAY 361

3/25/2021

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'Arch.’ situation-specific installation, found materials (planks of wood and space),
Manchester School of Art 2009

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'Arch.’ situation-specific installation, found materials (planks of wood and space),
Manchester School of Art 2009
 
Situation-specific installation.

Very soon now work from the Self-Isolation Residency will be going out to form an exhibition about the isolation of the artist, myself. Although a large part of this exhibition will be formed by my new paintings I am also working on a new Situation-specific installation to run alongside them. This piece is also being created to talk about the experience of isolation and ‘enclosure’; the working title for the piece.

Before I go into more detail about the actual new piece, I feel that I should probably begin here by explaining exactly what I mean by situation-specific installation and how it differs from site-specific installation, or at least from what site-specific installation has become. To begin with I am going to quote directly from the website tate.org.uk:

“The term site-specific refers to works of art designed specifically for a particular location and that has an interrelationship with the location.”

So far so good. But here’s where things get interesting:

“As a site-specific work of art is designed for a specific location, if it is removed from that location it loses all or a substantial part of its meaning.”

Now here in lies the problem with a great deal of what is referred to as site-specific installation, when such an installation has been successful in its original incarnation  artists have a tendency to pick it up and exhibit in other locations not really caring that a great deal of the original meaning was left behind. For me this displays sloppy, lazy and usually commercial thinking on the behalf of the “artist” in question. And it was because of this that I formulated the term Situation-specific as an alternative. The basic premise of the Tate definition of the site-specific holds true, “works of art designed specifically for a particular location and that has an interrelationship with the location”, but with a real enthesis on the latter section, “, if it is removed from that location it loses all or a substantial part of its meaning.”

But the word ‘situation’ also speaks about something great than just location in a way that the word ‘site’ never can. It speaks about timing, it speaks about emotion and feeling; this for me is why it is so vital that my situation-specific works are repeated, even if I return to exhibit in a gallery in which I have previously exhibited. Although the space may be the same I am not, I have changed, my ‘situation’ is different.

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