Nathan Anthony GBA

Nathan Anthony completed a joint MA (Hons) in Fine Art & Art History at Edinburgh University in 2014 and took part in the inaugural MASS Sculpture offsite programme from 2021 - 2022. He was included in the 2016 - 2017 Jerwood Drawing Prize, and had a solo exhibition at Generator Projects, Dundee in 2017. He was Artist in Residence at Christ’s Hospital School, West Sussex from 2017 - 2019, and Artist in Residence at Eltham College in London from 2019 - 2022, where he made an exhibition of artwork called ‘Muscled Memory’ at the Gerald Moore Gallery in 2021. He was a 2023 RSS Gilbert Bayes awardee and recently received an MFA in Studio Art from The University of Texas, Austin.

In my practice, I work like a telephone switchboard operator who facilitates and highlights connections between multiple entities that subsequently proceed to converse independently of my influence. These connections often conflate the visual language of art history with everyday objects and occurrences. In this mixing of refined and crude, considered and ignored aspects of material culture, I want to use the high to elevate the low; to afford the overlooked, the incidental, and the indexical an opportunity for poetic reconsideration.