Nathan Anthony uses the inherently haptic nature of making sculptures to explore the relationship between handmade and mechanised production. Anthony leverages this relationship to imagine the studio as a scaled-down model of a factory where he creatively misuses resources for sculptural ends. Anthony sees the artworks that come out of this as aberrations or factory errors.
Nathan Anthony is an artist from the UK currently living in Austin, Texas. He completed a joint MA (Hons) in Fine Art & Art History at Edinburgh University in 2014 and an MFA in Studio Art at The University of Texas at Austin in 2025. 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. In 2023 he received a Gilbert Bayes Award for early career sculptors from the Royal Society of Sculptors. He was most recently an Artist-in-Residence at the Dougherty Arts Centre in Austin, Texas.
