Antony Dixon

Antony Dixon is senior academic at the Arts University Bournemouth and a member of the Drawing Research Group there. Working with drawing photograph and film, Dixon combines fragments from different places that coalesce on the surface and are woven together by drawing. The drawing often arises from within maybe from memory or imagination, or sometimes, from another when collaborating. Through his practice Dixon is exploring how we connect with others through objects in a sensory
way. His hypothesis is that objects are imbued with a resonance from their creation.
This resonance is tuned by use over the object’s duration. In his observation of objects his aim is to get a sense of this resonance and endeavour to understanding the sensory manifestations that are of an object rather than necessarily the form of an object. He is interested in the extension of things, the negative space that goes beyond the object. The residual aftermath of things connect us to others, ancestral
others, cultural others, often both. This connect clearly has a time dimension and geographical or space dimension. However, this is a shifting time and space determined by the senses rather than mathematical increments. The object is the conduit for meeting, but not necessarily the point or location of meeting. This point or
moment he sees as a sensory pause or resonance akin to the mémoire involontaire; It functions both within and somewhere beyond.

Dixon is particularly interested in an East West connection marked by ancient trading routes and has collaborated with Iranian artist Forouzan Nazari and British/Indian artist Preeti Sood.