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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  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • The phenomenal nature of the idea : Architectural Intertwining/Environs, object scripted inquiry

    The phenomenal nature of the idea : Architectural Intertwining/Environs, object scripted inquiry Architectural Body Madeline Gins and Arakawa Working Notes/Holding in Place Wayfinding/Movements through accumulated research Running scripts, enactments, instances, involvements Collaborative texts, complexity, emergent, discursive From The Bookcase to The Field Table : Landing Sites of Inquiry Spatial Collage 2010 Lead, photographic (pinhole) and…

  • Visual/Spatial Vocabularies and Narratives (Livelihoods and Social Interactions)

    Visual/Spatial Vocabularies and Narratives (Livelihoods and Social Interactions)  The Solar Pavilion, Upper Lawn, Wiltshire. SP3 6SJ ‘A building intervenes between subject and space.’(Kengo Kuma) ‘Things need to be ordinary and heroic at the same time.’(Alison and Peter Smithson) ‘The Charged Void- contains references to the architects’ concern that their buildings should command a wider territory.…

  • Other Worlds : Insistent moments of mark making/subjectivity

    Other Worlds : Insistent moments of mark making/subjectivity  Outpost 260622 CYANOTYPE SUN MAPPINGS SPAB Building Conservation/Casework Campaigning/Innovative Research/Immersive Training Programmes/Working Parties. INHABITATION, the inter-dependence of mankind within socio economic frameworks. SKIN, SURFACE, SUBJECTIVITY. Insistent moments of alienated encounter. Harriet Katherine Riches. Vernacular Concerns/Folklore/Heritage and Fabric of Buildings. TONALITIES BUILDING MATERIALS Site/Regional Specificity/Local Memory. MATTER AND…

  • Studio Practices : Matter/Material/Making , thinking with flux and mutuality.

      Social apparatuses and agents that explore the possibilities of space. Other Worlds : Insistent moments of mark making/subjectivity. Source: Studio Practices : Matter/Material/Making , thinking with flux and mutuality.

  • Plastic Horizons/Strange Attractors

    Plastic Horizons/Strange Attractors  Outpost 010722 Intermediaries/Exploratory Realities. Constructs/Apparatuses. Elastic Horizons/Schisms Space-Time Manifolds Heuristic Devices/Poetic Ideas Strange Attractors/Drawings/Diagrams Architectures that embody philosophy, through limited concepts that work with the contingent and the uncertain. Light has a new prolific dimension today as a means of measurement and communication. Light that is not seen with the eyes can…

  • Tentative Building Profiles : Speculative landing sites of surface, image and texts.

    Tentative Building Profiles : Speculative landing sites of surface, image and texts.   Tentative Building Profiles : Speculative landing sites of surface, image and texts.  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…

  • DSC_7317 Reading : Slow Philosophy/Ecology of Material Thinking

    DSC_7317 Reading : Slow Philosophy/Ecology of Material Thinking Orange School Graph Books Harleston 2020-2021 A Species of Spaces The Social Turn Museum Site and Display Political Philosophy Makers work in a world that does not stand still Iteration allows for continual correction (material conversation) in response to an ongoing perceptual monitoring of the task as…