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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  • Objects, Causality, Art Ontologies.

    Social apparatuses and agents that explore the possibilities of space. Other Worlds : Insistent moments of mark making/subjectivity. Source: Objects, Causality, Art Ontologies. Objects, Causality, Art Ontologies.     Outpost 071022 The Quadruple Object. There are two kinds of objects and two kinds of qualities, real and sensual in both cases. Real objects and qualities…

  • Objects, Causality, Art Ontologies.

    Social apparatuses and agents that explore the possibilities of space. Other Worlds : Insistent moments of mark making/subjectivity. Source: Objects, Causality, Art Ontologies.

  • Other Worlds : Insistent moments of mark making/subjectivity

    MAKING : Spatial Agency/ Mutual Knowledge/ Discursive Consciousness. Social apparatuses and agents that explore the possibilities of space. Russell Moreton   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…

  • Working Title : Sensorium/The significance of the hut.

    MAKING : Spatial Agency/ Mutual Knowledge/ Discursive Consciousness. Social apparatuses and agents that explore the possibilities of space. Russell Moreton Source: Working Title : Sensorium/The significance of the hut.

  • Experimental Vision : Research Collage #1

      Experimental Vision : Research Collage #1 Body, Personal Relations, and Spatial Values. Composition, Concept, Object. Space is an abstract term for a complex set of ideas. The photogram is the immediate result of a constellation of light, three-dimensional object and photosensitive material. Experimental Vision FROM BEYOND VISION Photograms Flouris M. Neusus Work in the…

  • Photography and the temporality of territory : Metaphysics/Atmospheric Cosmogonies

      Photography and the temporality of territory : Metaphysics/Atmospheric Cosmogonies Blurring divisions and drawing attention to the temporality of territory, the ongoing experience of space as changing instead of space defined by the anxiety about the presence/absence of things. Francesca Woodman, Chris Townsend. 1999 Spatial themes of inside/outside, negotiations between the physical, phenomenal and a…

  • Drawing on Life : Bento’s Sketchbook/A Hut of One’s Own : John Berger/Ann Cline/Bento de Spinoza

    Drawing on Life : Bento’s Sketchbook/A Hut of One’s Own : John Berger/Ann Cline/Bento de Spinoza In the backyard of where she was living, Cline once decided to build a hut inspired by Kakuzo Okakura’s The Book of Tea. As my dwelling took shape, it began to shape my life as well. And when I…

  • Corpus : Propositions/Proofs and the situatedness of an environment

    Corpus : Propositions/Proofs and the situatedness of an environment Architectural Body/An organism that persons Organism, Person, Environment : Madeline Gins and Arakawa You cannot see me from where I look at myself Francesca Woodman Therefore the idea of the human body is composed of the many ideas of the component parts. The idea which  constitutes…

  • Generative/Emergent/Influences : The vibrancy and effectivity of nonhuman bodies, forces and flows/Jane Bennett

    Generative/Emergent/Influences : The vibrancy and effectivity of nonhuman bodies, forces and flows/Jane Bennett Mimesis : Paradox or Encounter Jane Bennett. 2018 Everything changes. It is not that everything is always at the precipice of dissolution, but that every thing is changing in relations with oth­ers—at speeds that are sometimes slow and gradual and sometimes fast…

  • Painting/Studio Practice : Micropolitics of slowness and repetition

    Painting/Studio Practice : Micropolitics of slowness and repetition Indexical Patterning/Painting : Affective Relational Intensities Micropolitics of slowness and repetition Pattern and Chaos/Liminality/Tectonics Architectural surface for a Library,  raw materials, light, silence and solitude. We are not in the presence of a passively representative image, but a vector of subjectivation. Guattari, 1995 :25 Vessels that resist…