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.

Category: Interiority/Atmosphere

  • Bachelard Readings~Reverberations of Refuge/Reverie.

    Bachelard Readings~Reverberations of Refuge/Reverie.

    Composite assemblages developed around spaces, interiority and aesthetics. The refuge is not simply an enclosure. It is a material threshold between exposure and protection, where the body encounters the weight, resistance and permeability of its surroundings. Year2024 MediumCeramic, Lead, Wood. Size190mmL x 230mmH x 80mmW 220mmL x 230mmH x 100mmW Category Interiority / Atmosphere This…

  • Ceramics a spatial sensitivity, forms governed by their vessel and void.

    Ceramics a spatial sensitivity, forms governed by their vessel and void.

    Hans Coper : Pots that are ‘Worlding’ in that that they situate a certain fidelity, a willingness to survive and endure. Hans Coper : Potter, “the experience of existence” CRAFTS STUDY CENTRE. FARNHAM, SURREY. UK RUSSELL MORETON 2014. “I become part of the process, I am learning to operate a sensitive instrument which may be…