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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 may 2020: Day 57

5/25/2020

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

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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.
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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