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: Making/Materiality

  • Studio Practice~Clay Becomes

    Studio Practice~Clay Becomes

    Forces into Forms: Fire, Intra-Action, and Ontological Bodying The Ontological Relationship Between Clay and FireFocusing on ontology and material transformation, this title targets niche audiences interested in art theory. The violence is not theatrical, it is embedded in the accumulation of small operations and gestures. The work asks the viewer to slow down and discover…

  • Inhabiting Intensified Surfaces through Minor Gestures.

    Inhabiting Intensified Surfaces through Minor Gestures.

    Intensified Surfaces : Anthropocene Aesthetics : Ceramics and Environmental Engagement. Making / Materiality The emphasis is less on a particular ceramic body and more on what minor actions do to material and how those actions intensify the surface. This makes it an important precursor to your current thinking about holes, perforation, incision, abrasion, repetition and…

  • Eartha~Ceramic

    Eartha~Ceramic

    The ceramic body becomes a site: pierced, withdrawn and opened to the circulation of light, matter and possible inhabitation. Eartha~Ceramic clay → shelter → volume → piercing → light → interior → unknowability The constructed body becomes an environment in miniature. Russell Moreton Making~Environment(s)~Artist Statement. 2025 Makers work in a world that does not stand…

  • Creative Ecologies : Clay/Fire/Space-Situatedness.

    Creative Ecologies : Clay/Fire/Space-Situatedness.

    Creative Ecologies : Clay/Fire/Space-Situatedness.  Clay/Fire/Space-Situatedness. An Exploratory Ceramic Based Inquiry. https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/ The House is all about the poetry of shelter and siege from the elements and cosmos. Gaston Bachelard. Volume And Space. Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture, ‘Man Pointing,’ is an important statement in Western art for many reasons, not the least of which is what it…