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: Research/Working Texts

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

    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…

  • Transactive Memory : INFORMATION/MOVEMENT differentiated/integrated.

    Transactive Memory : INFORMATION/MOVEMENT differentiated/integrated.

      MAKING : Spatial Agency/ Mutual Knowledge/ Discursive Consciousness. Social apparatuses and agents that explore the possibilities of space.  Re-entering / 2026 — What was once considered as the organisation of information between bodies now returns as a question of movement: how knowledge travels, gathers and changes through bodies, materials and space. Transactive Memory :…