Russell Moreton : Matter(s) in Correspondence

Spatial practices of clay, ceramic, drawing, bodies, places and making.

Spatial Practice

Architecture, sites, spatial situations, bodies, inhabitation, installations, spatial propositions.

Ceramic Bodies

Clay, ceramic sculpture, vessels, apertures, surfaces, firing, ceramic interiors, ceramic atmospheres.

Drawing / Image

Drawing, cyanotype, photography, diagram, mapping, collage, visual experiments.

Interiority / Atmosphere

Bachelard, refuge, reverie, innerness, thresholds, chambers, light, shadow, atmosphere, sensing.

Making / Materiality

Studio practice, making, material resistance, gesture, process, firing, construction, surface, force.

Research / Working Texts

Reading, theoretical writing, notes, research propositions, older texts being re-entered, speculative learning.

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Making is the production of relations through material events. What I think is emerging is an ontology of making. The clay isn’t the subject. The object isn’t the outcome. Even process isn’t the central concern. The central concern is relation. Relation between body and matter. Relation between force and resistance. Relation between object and space. Relation between time and form. Relation between making and knowing. Visual artist working in the UK. UCA Farnham, Interior Design MA. Canterbury School of Architecture, Spatial Practices MA. University of Southampton, Visual Fine Art BA hons. Epsom School of Art and Design, Ceramics HSND.

sfmoma:

“A lot of times, people tend to impose Francesca’s biography – which has this tragic finality – onto the work,” says C. Scott Willis, the director of “The Woodmans,” a new documentary that sketches a poignant portrait of Woodman’s family and how they’ve coped with her death. “You look at the pictures in the beginning and you say, ‘Is this just a suicide note?’ When you really read her diaries and put those up against what she was doing, trying to divine her intentions, what you realize is that she was full of joy.”

Read more: Tragedy informs view of Francesca Woodman’s art

(Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/08/DDGE1M7L15.DTL)
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