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.

Simple Dwelling Places.

Dwelling begins here not as occupation, but as the material proposition of an interior.

Simple Dwelling Places

template → gesture → construction → dwelling → interior

The spatial condition is made rather than excavated.

Slab built ceramic from templates and drawn annotations added throughout the construction process.

Working with an attention to material : Architectural forms as the excitement of making/building/dwelling.

Dwelling.

Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought.

Tim Ingold.

Ingold insists on a flat, continuous and processual ontology of dwelling and becoming.

Year
2024

Medium
Ceramic

Size
220mmL x 240mmH x 60mmW 130mmL x 240mmH x 90mmW

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Ceramic Bodies

This one is much more clearly a ceramic body than the Morn Hill post. It describes slab-built ceramic forms made from templates, with drawn annotations entering the construction process, and explicitly connects making / building / dwelling through Ingold’s processual ontology.

Simple Dwelling Places → Eartha~Ceramic

Here the relationship becomes more materially explicit.

Simple Dwelling Places is concerned with making/building/dwelling and slab construction.

Eartha~Ceramic then intensifies this into:

material → volume → interior → piercing → light → environment.

The dwelling becomes increasingly less like a model of architecture and more like a material environment in itself.

This is where your current ceramic thinking starts to become visible retrospectively.

The holes in Eartha~Ceramic aren’t simply decorative perforations. They establish a circulation for light into the interiors.

That is remarkably close to the aperture/camera-obscura thinking you’ve just been developing.

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