Category: art
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Re-Interpreting the palimpsest of place through the humanities. Researched for ‘Reading Rooms’ Waverley Abbey site, MA Interiors, UCA Farnham 2013-15 Inside every person (however serious or playful) lies an “enclosed garden” Forming relationships not through superstructures, concepts or societies, but through inclusive structures/practices and localities. The Hortus Conclusus could stand for this type of concentration…
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Interdisciplinary Insights in Ceramics. Positioning ceramics within contemporary knowledge discussions, this title attracts a scholarly audience interested in multifaceted practices. 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…
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Wayfaring/Lines and Interior Spaces : Materials of movement and attention. Processual clay+ceramic constructions that articulate through processes of mark making and intermediaries, surfaces spatial bodies and interiors all entangled in a complex scaffolding of its own making. “Makers work in a world that does not stand still, Iteration allows for continual correction (material conversation) in…
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A movement of thought (Bergson) becomes active and in this activity a new register begins to take shape. This new register is neither art per se nor philosophy, it is study, it is practice, it is speculation. The Minor Gesture, Erin Manning. Exploring Bergson’s Active Thought MovementThis title includes key terms like ‘Bergson’ and ‘Active…
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Spatial Poetics~Phronesis : Encounters in the making. Phronesis~Poetics only encountered in movement. Generative Claywork. Correspondences in Ceramics. Mutant Sponge : Spatial Bodies~Human Bodies~Performativity Influenced in part by John Piper (Ruined Cottages) and the materiality, of old stained stonework, lime wash, carlite plaster and yellow ochre. On Materiality~Ruination Architectural Ceramics Of Scepticism. Ceramic substances/coatings and the…
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Intensified Surfaces : Anthropocene Aesthetics : Ceramics and Environmental Engagement. Clay+Ceramic : Minor Gestures~Interstitial space of emergent expression. Clay: Transitive Forces of a Minor Key. Clay Bodies : Ceramic Atmospheres. The Ceramic Surface~interiority~Made From Clay. Interiors and their ‘interiority’ made from the intensity of fire to create ceramic surfaces and volumes constructed through the malleability…
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“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…
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Landscape : Entanglements of Affect/Aesthetics The Poetics of Space. Gaston Bachelard. The classic look at how we experience intimate places. The Eroded Steps. Giuseppe Penone. Dean Clough Contour Lines. Land Drawings, Installations, Excavations. Kate Whiteford. Remote Sensing. Colin Renfrew. Negative Capability part I is an exhibition of visual and written responses to the University of…
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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…
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Air/Place/Breath/Light/Architecture/Ritual/Social Spaces EvaluationRussell 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…