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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  • caitlindeane: Rory MacDonald2007  Rory MacDonald’s work bridges ceramic process, street-art, and accessibility. Above, he built a small portable kiln that can be taken out to the streets and used to fire ceramic “graffiti” or “tag” on brick walls with glaze. He’s also known for his porcelain work on broken street curbs that discuss multiple histories.…

  • caitlindeane: Phoebe CummingsBetweenStoneware clay and Porcelain40 x 240 cm2005 

  • All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. Noam Chomsky (via zealotry)

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  • mawrdew: “When freedom is practiced in a closed circle, it fades into a dream, becomes a mere image of itself. The ambiance of play is by nature unstable. At any moment, “ordinary life” may prevail once again. The geographical limitation of play is even more striking than its temporal limitation. Every game takes place within…

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  • wild-improbability: apoptosis (by Emma McNally1) (Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmamcnally/3327383979/in/photostream)

  • danceabletragedy: The Chalkboard Universe (Source: http://www.sapergalleries.com/GonsalvesTheChalkboardUniverse24x36.jpg)

  • Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you’d go in this dusty old place and they might point you toward something that would change your life. All that’s gone. Tom Waits (via nedhepburn)

  • Patti Smith – My Blakean Year (by TinAngel9) (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)