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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  • Gridshell (interior). on Flickr. (Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/5140891480/)

  • markings over layered drawings #2 on Flickr. (Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/5144053688/)

  • Drawing, tissue paper, tape, body outline with astronomical data on paper. on Flickr. (Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/5141032716/)

  • the-rx: Now that location-based metadata waft through the space, thereby redefining contexts and places, a new field opens up to designers: How will information be usefully integrated into the physical space? Inspired by the fictional illustrations by Ingeborg Marie Dehs Thomas, who interprets the spatial expansion of radio waves, we attempted to lend metadata a…

  • helpfuldiagrams: From a book called Medieval Islamic medicine by Peter Pormann and Emilie Savage-Smith.

  • firsttimeuser: via chagalov thank you yama-bato Martin Martinček, Self-Portrait, 1960-1961 Martin MartinčekAutoportrét fotografa1960 – 1961 

  • kiameku: Damian Ortega Moises 2007 Found tools and wire (Source: http://artisshock.blogspot.com/2011/03/damien-ortega-tool-bit.html)

  • kiameku: Damian Ortega Alma Mater 235cm x 230cm x 230cm (Source: http://artfinder.friezeartfair.com/artist/1736/)

  • firsttimeuser: Jean Dieuzaide. La Gitane du Sacro Monte, Grenade, 1953