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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  • Material memory, trace as a new site. on Flickr. Beneath the surface (Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/5731457416/)

  • Sequences, unprocessed cyanotype. on Flickr. Experimental site specific work in alternative photography. (Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/5746250278/)

  • Working Practices: The body, politics and architecture. Blueprint #2 (Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/5746251822/in/photostream/)

  • Installation,Cold Storage 2011. Thrown and discarded pots, part of 1000.

  • complexfields: A Frank Gilbreth photo (time and motion study) (Source: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4eto_hM4iew/THxPUVoOckI/AAAAAAAAC9I/5rIF4vBTjP8/s1600/Frank+Gilbreth+-+motion+study+8.jpg)

  • Durational study( pinhole photography) 2010.Architectural students working at UCA Canterbury. 

  • leslieavonmiller: Sander Steins Distorted White Sander Steins was born in April 1973 in Nijmegen, the oldest city of The Netherlands. When he was only a child it was already a challenge for him to create his own world on a blank piece of paper. Worlds in which not only his fantasies were depicted, but also…

  • Jannis Kounellis/Arte Povera ?

  • Ceramic Remains After Firing #4. 2011. Russell Moreton

  • Ceramic Resting Place. 2011. Russell Moreton