Russell Moreton : Matter(s) in Correspondence

Air/Place/Breath/Light/Architecture/Ritual/Social Spaces

This is fundamentally a site-based spatial practice. The work emerges through St Peter Hungate, water, architecture, ritual, social space, breath and light, with the ceramic vessels acting as spatial responses to the medieval fabric of the site. The post itself describes the vessels as echoing the stillness and muted silence of Hungate.

The refuge becomes a vessel; the vessel becomes a chamber; the chamber becomes a site; the site begins to breathe.

What Bachelard approaches through reverie becomes spatially and materially operative at Hungate: refuge becomes vessel, vessel becomes interior, and interior becomes a condition of relation between body, architecture, water, light and place.

The vessel carries the interior into the site. Water, breath, light and architecture begin to occupy the same spatial condition.

At Hungate, refuge leaves the room and becomes a site which is also the undoing of place.

Hungate gives us interiority becoming site.

interiority → aperture → chamber → site → correspondence

Russell Moreton is a visual artist interested in gathering research and responding to the historical site of St Peter, Hungate. He has explored the exhibition theme ‘Water’ as both a spiritual and corporeal inquiry for site-specific artworks. He has spent time developing working ideas that have an affective resonance to the architectural setting of their presentation. His use of slab built ceramics vessels echo the stillness and muted silence experienced within the medieval fabric of the Hungate. He has used a figural drawing on Chinese paper, processed by the evident passage of water to explore the representation of the human form in this particular place.

Date(s)
23/06/2023

Venue
The Hungate

Location
Norwich

Exploring Water in Architectural Art at Hungate
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Russell Moreton’s Ceramics: A Reflection on Water and Place
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Site-Specific Art: Water and Space at St Peter, Hungate
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Then Water at Hungate seems to take that instability into the site:

inside ↔ outside
architecture ↔ atmosphere
water ↔ body
vessel ↔ space
site ↔ place
object ↔ environment

The ceramic vessel becomes the intercessor.

It doesn’t merely sit inside the architecture. It allows architectural, corporeal and atmospheric relations to gather around it.