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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  • Camouflage/Concept and Design : Re-Working Aesthetics/The Everyday

    Camouflage/Concept and Design : Re-Working Aesthetics/The Everyday Everyday Aesthetics : Ordinary Lives If the everyday can be considered an ecology where passions circulate in a perpetual state of intensification and entropic decline, the empirical self (and not just David Hume’s version of it) is essentially in a state of flux. This posits the human as…

  • Sketch Books/Strange Loops : Drawings, Materials, Annotations, Collages and Constructions 2018-20

    Sketch Books/Strange Loops : Drawings, Materials, Annotations, Collages and Constructions 2018-20  OUTPOST STUDIO 3.16 Agency through sketchbooks Apokatastasis : Jim Jarmusch, Jozef Van Wissem Spatial Asperity/Mesh, Membrane and Gauze Drawing and its attempts to map out/make visible contingent things Contingency, is what remains, as it comes up against causality/constantly passing through Objects/Things conceptualized by the…

  • Atmosphere and Surrounding Objects : Loose Assemblages/Living Emotions/Theoretical Gaze

    Atmosphere and Surrounding Objects : Loose Assemblages/Living Emotions/Theoretical Gaze Paintings being living emotions. Mark Rothko The atmosphere of a work of art, what surrounds it, that ‘place’ in which it exists – all this is thought of as a lesser thing, charming but not essential. Professionals insist on essentials … not understanding that everything we…

  • 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.…

  • Drawing Rooms : Cyanotypes/Collages/Photography

    Drawing Rooms : Cyanotypes/Collages/Photography Slow Philosophy. 2017 Reading against the institution Michelle Boulous Walker Saturnian Form : Lead and Library Dates Russell Moreton Emilio Prini The filter and welcome to the angel, 1967 Environment with participants, doves, artificial green grass, socks, ultra-violet light. Dimensions variable, Installation, Studio Bentivoglio, Bologna. Artist-run exhibition space Emilio Prini well…

  • Inside Phenomena : Innerness and Interior : Surface Pleasures

    Inside Phenomena : Innerness and Interior : Surface Pleasures Theory and Analysis. In the future will we be able to extract the Platonic values that Hans Coper writes about with regard to the Egyptian vessel? This essay is an attempt to get to understand my current concerns centred around the interior spaces of things and…

  • A humble, passive, somewhat absurd object, yet potent, mysterious, sensuous : Hans Coper

    A humble, passive, somewhat absurd object, yet potent, mysterious, sensuous : Hans Coper Hans Coper, Theory and Object Analysis, Crafts Study Centre, Farnham. MA Interior Design A vessel (as membrane/threshold that can hold social rituals/traditions and memories) seems to occupy space but simultaneously be occupied by space. Theories of relativity and uncertainty have shown that…

  • Thinking Things : The Archi-Textual Surface.

    Thinking Things : The Archi-Textual Surface.     Rebecca Solnit explores Susan Bordo’s claim that ‘if the body is a metaphor for our locatedness in space and time and thus for the finitude of human perception and knowledge, then the post modern body is no body at all.’ Solnit comments on this post modern body…

  • Drawing Surfaces : Situated Knowledges

    Drawing Surfaces : Situated Knowledges

    A surface is never simply the place where something ends. It is where things meet. Drawing makes this meeting visible through pressure, gesture, interruption and trace. The surface becomes situated: held between body and material, looking and touching, interior and exterior. What appears as a mark may therefore be understood as a small correspondence between…

  • Corpus/Borderlands : A Society in Excess, Marc Auge.

    Corpus/Borderlands : A Society in Excess, Marc Auge. Corpus : Photographic drawings from human outlines Borderlines : Cley 19, speculative submission for exhibition ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTIONS AROUND ISSUES OF SPACES, ORIGINS, SOCIAL RITUALS AND TABOOS.   CREATING CREATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY INTO TEMPORAL SITES, between the concrete and the spatial. Utilising processes and strategies and terminologies. Demarcation, set…