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  • Atemwende, a breathturn : Adam Gopnik and Edmund de Waal

    Atemwende, a breathturn : Adam Gopnik and Edmund de Waal Craft and Art, Skill and Anxiety. Craft is logic, and art defies it. The defiance is what makes art. The serenity of the artisan lies in her knowledge that it can all be done again. The anxiety of the artist; lies in knowing that if…

  • Inquiry is essentially the way of learning : Fragile Architectures of Hapticity and Time

    Inquiry is essentially the way of learning : Fragile Architectures of Hapticity and Time In an era in which architecture is once more learning its potential as a form of inquiry, rather than as a service — as a producer of knowledge, and not merely of ‘projects’. Brett Steele, Atlas-Tectonics in Barkow Leibininger, Bricoleur Bricolage.…

  • Spatial/Diffractive Bodies Situated in Place : Matters of Fidelity and Precariousness.

    Spatial/Diffractive Bodies Situated in Place : Matters of Fidelity and Precariousness.   Bringing Things To Life. Creative entanglements in a world of materials. The Environment Without Objects. Tim Ingold. 2008 Intermediaries within the cyanotype process. Trace drawings on paper with organic and material from the built environment. Drawing/Making Processes. Architectural Body : Organism, Person, Environment.…

  • Working Notes : Edmund de Waal : How the history of pottery and the philosophy of pottery has informed contemporary practice

    https://russellmoreton.blogspot.com Independent research for Studio Practice Theory and Analysis.  UCA Farnham, MA Interiors. 2014. Why does Edmund de Waal make architectural interventions through the arrangement of porcelain pots? To what extent, if any is this Ceramist interested in the ability of the single pot to engender meaning? How is the “innerness” of pots that he…

  • Dwelling Places : Raveningham Sculpture Trail.

    Sensing Space. Architectural structure meets visual fine art, as a sculptural assemblage, a resting place created on-site; promoting an inquiry into making~inhabiting and feflexivity amongst a social event and the natural garden landscape. Evaluation IMMATERIAL ARCHITECTURES MAKING IN THE LANDSCAPE SCULPTURE TRAIL 2018 The House-sheds : Camping There’s more truth about a camp than a…

  • Alchemy at Raveningham Sculpture Trail.

    Raveningham Sculpture Trail 2025. Sensing Places : Towards an Alchemy of Thinking. This site based exploratory apparatus, part self assembly, and part crafted brings together components, materials and filtered light. Built around the involvement of making in the landscape, this event based intervention creates a fictional space articulated through the alchemy of built spaces that…

  • On the Inner Life of Things : Painterly Dissolutions~Emulsions~Viscous Light.

    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…

  • Bachelard Readings~Reverberations of Refuge/Reverie.

    Composite assemblages developed around spaces, interiority and aesthetics. Year2024 MediumCeramic, Lead, Wood. Size190mmL x 230mmH x 80mmW 220mmL x 230mmH x 100mmW Water at Hungate. 2023 Hungate Architectural Explorations. Air/Place/Breath/Light/Architecture/Ritual/Social Space Cell-Court-Domain. Hungate Vessels, Architectural Explorations, 2023, Ceramic, 165mmW x 250mmH x 90mmD. Russell Moreton is a visual artist interested in gathering research and responding…

  • CLAY/WITH FIRE : Thinking Architecture/Exploratory Research/Vocabulary

    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. In And Out Of Material. 2007. Tony Cragg. All our senses scan the space in front of us; the future, in both…