Antony
Clarkson
…is an artist currently based in Manchester whose body of kinetic-sculptures are all life forms in the spirit of the Great Victorian Age of discovery and invention; and hark back to Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, and Jules Verne. Marking Time is the forth evolution of his Wheelchairs series, clocks that use their hands to push themselves along. As clocks are prosthetic devices for man, allowing us to keep track of time; so the extensions to the hands of the clock give it life, firstly by allowing it to move and secondly by allowing it's movements to be tracked as the object draws it's way forward. Spirituality Levels is a hybrid innovation where the pen barrel is the prosthetic that allows the other two objects to procreate and produce; a form of sexual splint link Viagra. Clarkson's third offering, Dea-lights is a site specific sculptural installation, which temporarily transforms the use of and brings life and joy to a radiator.
