Category: architecture

  • “Leylines” an art based inquiry.

    “Leylines” has been appropriated and employed as both a practical and as a conceptual strategy to inquiry into places and localities. Site visits and sensitive dialogues with the other artists at a number of locations have further brought materials and processes into the creative realm. The spatial practice of setting-up this work has also produced…

  • Simple Dwelling Places.

    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. Year2024 MediumCeramic Size220mmL x 240mmH x 60mmW…

  • Scriptorium~Studio~Spatial Theatre.

    Assemblage of spatial components centred around speculative interiors as discursive spaces of study and making. Year2024 MediumCeramic, Wood, Lead, Glass Size200mmL x 420mmH x 200mmW Artist Books : Ceramic Scriptorium. Artist books from visual art practice, housed in a ceramic slipcased/scriptorium space. Year2023-2024 MediumCeramic, Paper, Photography and Collage. Size440mmW X 120mmH x 295mmD Exploring Speculative…

  • Numinous Odyssey : Raveningham Sculpture Trail.

    DescriptionNuminous Odyssey : Architectural Canvas/Painting in an English Garden. Raveningham Architectural Canvas/Form Framed-Un-Framed Construction Sensing/Site 2020 Aesthetics between objects Fragments from note books Art Works, a constellation of coincidences/intuitions resting the not being made Re-animating context Aesthetic perception, how aesthetics are represented in a object by philosophers and scientists Espace-Milieu : Painting as environment entanglements…

  • Volatile Readings~Everyday Enchantments : Biosphere Projects. 2012-2022

    DescriptionDiffractive Readings/Blue Spaces Of Everyday Enchantments. Spatial blueprints/propositional diagram on the speculative readings from The Order of Time. Carlo Rovelli. The sun has gone mad and stripped the earth of its ionosphere. For decades blasting radiation has poured upon earth, melting the polar caps and turning permafrost into streams, rivers, oceans. Huge deltas have been…

  • On the Inner Life of Things : Painterly Dissolutions~Emulsions~Viscous Light.

    Interstitial Workings of Minor Gestures : Clay~Ceramic Conceptualising Environment(s) Continuity and Change. Slab built forms from clay slabs that have previously been drawn into and brush marked with slips. Assemble forms then divided into several spatial interiors. Piercings through the surface set up a circulation for light to enter into the interiors. Further firings and…

  • Humanise : Building Interior Places/Gatherings On Care.

    Affective Poetics: Exploring Ceramic PracticesThis title emphasizes the emotional and artistic aspects of ceramics, appealing to an audience interested in creative expression and poetics. Crafting Care: Ceramics and Built EnvironmentsHighlighting the connection between ceramics and care practices can attract readers focused on sustainability and community engagement in art. Speculative Ceramics: Knowledge and PracticeBy framing ceramics…

  • Eartha~Ceramic

    Russell Moreton Making~Environment(s)~Artist Statement. 2025 Makers work in a world that does not stand still.Tim Ingold, 2010. The Studio is no longer a retreat but it now integrates. It is all exterior.Ways of Curating, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Ceramic Shelters : Transitional Zones between Thinking and Making. Russell Moreton : A visual fine artist working with…

  • Littoral Environments : The Interplay of Ethics and Aesthetics.

    Littoral Environments : Arts and Subjectivity (the making of things) Text Extract/Inclusion. “Pure Presence” The enchantment of modern life: attachments, crossings, and ethics : Jane Bennett 2001. It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted–that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that…

  • Exploring the Connection Between Ceramics and Space

    The Trace and its Connector/Ceramics, drawing and walking/wayfaring with things.  Outpost 040523 Anecdote of the Jar  I placed a jar in Tennessee,  And round it was, upon a hill.  It made the slovenly wilderness  Surround that hill.  The wilderness rose up to it,  And sprawled around, no longer wild.  The jar was round upon the…