Antony Dixon’s interest is around the sensory interstice between body and matter and the process of making through diverse thought. He seeks to describes an intertwined relationship between subject and object, and self and other.  He is fascinated by the mark or residual aftermath and its relational impact on place, memory and identity, and a connection with the ancestral other through things and/or matter. 

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For him, making is a negotiated process, as ‘dialectic, mutually transformative, engagements between head, hand, and material’ (Yarrow and Jones, 2014: 258). This negotiation is extended by collaborating with others, to introduce a cognitive dissonance from another cultural view and engage with the in-between. This conflux is part of a cyclical unfolding as material becomes a ‘thing’ and returns to matter, in a process of growth or becoming.

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Antony is undertaking his PhD studies in the department of Architecture, at the University of Brighton. His research, in association with Wessex Archaeology, draws from ideas from phenomenology and psychogeography. He explores a sensory encounter with the found ‘thing’. In particular, a perception that sits in-between the haptic and the optic, that is mediated by memory.