Category: ceramic bodies
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Clay begins to think architecture differently. Enclosure, interior, aperture, surface and volume become less like spatial descriptions and more like sensations within a material body. The architectural begins to move closer to touch: pressure, resistance, piercing, gravity, fire and gesture. Clay~ceramic becomes an atmospheric body, moving between inside and outside, receiving and returning forces. What…
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Thank you for sharing these. They confirm something I had begun to suspect from our conversations: the philosophy has not been imposed on the work; it has emerged from it. The photographs show a practice that is already operating through a sophisticated set of material operations. What I find most interesting is that the finished…
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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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Spatial Poetics~Phronesis : Encounters in the making. Re-entering / 2026 — Ruination becomes material rather than representational: surface accumulates staining, abrasion, coating, gesture and time until the ceramic body begins to remember the architecture it never simply represented. The important thing for the taxonomy is that ruination isn’t simply a subject. The ceramic surface itself…
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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…
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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…
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Phronesis~Poetics only encountered in movement. Generative Claywork. Correspondences in Ceramics. Mutant Sponge : Spatial Bodies~Human Bodies~Performativity. Re-entering / 2026 — Phronesis is encountered in movement: a practical intelligence emerging between body, clay, force, gesture and space. Exploring Movement in Generative ClayworkThis title incorporates key terms like ‘movement’ and ‘claywork’, improving relevance for searches related to…
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Spatial Bodies in Architectural and Contemporary Art. Exploratory Clay/Ceramic Based Inquiry. The material is just part of the vocabulary of meaning. Thinking Poetics : Architecture and Ceramics. Urns : Immersive Cells of Containment~Dissolution. Re-entering / 2026 — Clay is no longer simply a material within architectural thinking. It becomes a body through which space, surface,…
Russell Moreton : Matter(s) in Correspondence 