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.

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  • Work : Filtered Light

    Work : Filtered Light   Brian Clarke The Art of Light/Paul Greenhalgh,2018. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Properties of Matter and Imagination FUSION OF PHYSICAL/METAPHYSICAL WORK : An Inquiry with Material Practice The poetics of glass as a super-cooled liquid. Molten Fluidity. An organic flux frozen for an instant. Chaos and order, flow and turbulence,…

  • An Elemental Imagination Unfolding : Intuition of The Instant

    An Elemental Imagination Unfolding : Intuition of The Instant Gaston Bachelard Intuition of The Instant A preoccupation with the discontinuous and the disruptive “relentlessly  hauling the cumulative detritus of our past”  Analogue Shadow Projection  (Townshend Rock) Slowdive Sugar for the pill https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/23826107748/in/dateposted-public/ Posted by Russell Moreton at Saturday, December 18, 2021 No comments:   Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare…

  • Architectural Interiors : Collage and Photography

    Architectural Interiors : Collage and Photography (For architecture) to become highly human it must represent not only the beautiful action of the space, but above all that of time. For this matter the most refined art, the most difficult and dangerous, is that of patina. Luis Barragan Red Wall/Pace Gallery London 2014 Robert Mangold Waverley…

  • Anthropomorphic Form : Photogram with shells/text

    Anthropomorphic Form : Photogram with shells/text  Landscape of Found Objects : Archaeological Photograms Posted by Russell Moreton at Monday, December 20, 2021 No comments:   Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: photogram, Thomas Ruff   Social apparatuses and agents that explore the possibilities of space. Other Worlds : Insistent moments of mark making/subjectivity. Source: Anthropomorphic Form : Photogram with…

  • Studio Assemblages : Spatial Instant/Relationscapes

    Studio Assemblages : Spatial Instant/Relationscapes  Ever instant has a thousand memories : Henri Bergson   Posted by Russell Moreton at Monday, December 20, 2021 No comments:   Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: #cyanotype, architectural models, artist’s book, assemblages for architecture, ceramics, collage, exploration, Henri Bergson, indexical, mattering, painting, process, surface, trace, yellow ochre   Social apparatuses and agents that explore the possibilities of space. Other Worlds : Insistent moments of mark…

  • BLUE LIGHT : Evoking an inner room in the Mind/Consciousness

    BLUE LIGHT : Evoking an inner room in the Mind/Consciousness Walking In My Mind, Stephanie Rosenthal. Hayward Gallery 2009 At last we could talk about and investigate mental imagery, subjectivity, imagination and creativity. At last scientists could tackle the mystery of consciousness without being laughed at. Mysteries Of The Mind, Susan Blackmore. Between The Microcosm…

  • Biosphere/Archipelago : Sun Drawing/Cyanotype/Spheres of Activity

    Biosphere/Archipelago : Sun Drawing/Cyanotype/Spheres of Activity Bioscleave/Blue Particle Cloud/Diagram. Biosphere/Archipelago : Sun Drawing/Cyanotype 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 built, lakes formed, seas have risen. The…

  • Explorations around dwelling/site based ontologies : Site/Life-specific installations.

    Explorations around dwelling/site based ontologies : Site/Life-specific installations.  Outpost 240123 Speculative/Creative /Geographies/around Moving Bodies of Thought. Explorations around dwelling/site based ontologies. Dwelling/Person/Environment/Engagements. The simple fluid ‘flat’ making ontologies of bringing/bonding clay forms together. Worlding/Water/Performative/Intraventions. A Practice of Transformational Modalities. The Processual Character of Form. Organic life, as I envisage it, is active rather than reactive,…

  • Playing With Structural Modalities/Making/Tensions : Speculative Spatial Constructions.

    Playing With Structural Modalities/Making/Tensions : Speculative Spatial Constructions.  Structural Modalities/Making/Tensions : Spatial Forms to gather/interact with discursive research. https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/24337820341/in/dateposted-public/ 5 Procedural Architecture Start by thinking of architecture as a tentative constructing toward a holding in place. Architecture’s holding in place occurs within and as part of a prevailing atmospheric condition that others routinely call biosphere…

  • Giving Sensations Place/Site : Subjective/Hypothesis/Bricolage/Tectonics/Working Scripts/Making Camps.

    Giving Sensations Place/Site : Subjective/Hypothesis/Bricolage/Tectonics/Working Scripts/Making Camps.   IMMATERIAL ARCHITECTURES MAKING IN THE LANDSCAPE. RAVENINGHAM SCULPTURE TRAIL 2018/2020 STIMULATING TENSIONS. BRICOLAGE / HEURISTIC PRACTICE, Using things at hand, temporal, self constructions, becomings, mind forming explorations. Mediating/Architecting the experience of LANDSCAPE. The building as nothing more than an exposition of itself. Georg Simmel, text Frames, Handles,…