The Self-Isolation Residency 25th may 2020: Day 57

#artistsupportpledge 'Manchester Profile: The Cathedral and Deansgate', drawing with carpenters profile gauge, 2010, Antony Clarkson, 33 x 27cm framed, £200.

I'm adding another piece to my #artistsupportpledge collection this evening, it's an older piece that was exhibited as part of the 'Manu Exhibition' in the Finnish Academy of Fine Art's Gallery in Helsinki in 2010 along side my installation, 'Floorplan'.

All of the work that I made for this exhibition had elements in common; they were all basically 2 dimensional pieces and that all had transit from Finland to the UK and back to Finland in their history.  'Floorplan' came about through my consideration of a document sent to me from Finland during my research into the gallery space for the exhibition; it had traveled to me and I wanted to take it back encapsulated in the work that I intended to present within the gallery.  This ideas of transit from Finland to the UK and then back to Finland became central to my thinking in regards to this piece and it also connected to this drawings (above). During my time preparing for this exhibition I had started to experiment with making drawings using carpenters profile gauges, I loved the linear, vertical nature of the lines that I could get from this technique and they immediately made me think of buildings. I began to experiment with cityscapes of Manchester, in fact the view used in this piece is just around the corner from where my Manchester studio was at that time.

As I was working on one of these profiles I realised that they were made in Finland, this of course completed the circle for these pieces; the profile gauges were made in Finland, shipped to the UK where I bought them. I made drawings of Manchester with them in Manchester and then to them back to Finland for the exhibition in Helsinki.

The piece that I am putting up for sale tonight as part of my #artistsupportpledge is one of the original pieces made for the exhibition in Finland: 'Manchester Profile: The Cathedral and Deansgate', drawing with carpenters profile gauge, 2010, Antony Clarkson, 33 x 27cm framed, £200 plus shipping.