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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  • ‘Architecting’ : Making, Building, Dwelling, Thinking, concretizing existential space

    ‘Architecting’ : Making, Building, Dwelling, Thinking, concretizing existential space Heidegger : Poetically Man Dwells. “Man builds in that he dwells” Building Dwelling Thinking. 1951 ‘Architecting’ :  Making, concretizing existential space Ann Cline A Hut of One’s Own Life Outside The Circle of Architecture. Herzog  and De Meuron NATURAL HISTORY Heidegger “resolutely romanticised the rural and…

  • Inquiry is essentially the way of learning : Fragile Architectures of Hapticity and Time

    Inquiry is essentially the way of learning : Fragile Architectures of Hapticity and Time  In an era in which architecture is once more learning its potential as a form of inquiry, rather than as a service — as a producer of knowledge, and not merely of ‘projects’. Brett Steele, Atlas-Tectonics in Barkow Leibininger, Bricoleur Bricolage.…

  • Hortus Conclusus : A Serious Place, Peter Zumthor, working ideas.

    Hortus Conclusus : A Serious Place, Peter Zumthor, working ideas. Hortus Conclusus : A Serious Place Hortus Conclusus : Enclosed Garden Often translated as meaning “a serious place” To construct a contemplative room, a garden within a garden. Pavilion as both a monumental physical structure and as a site of emotional encounter. With a refined…

  • Relationscapes : Body, Personal Relations and Spatial Values

    Relationscapes : Body, Personal Relations and Spatial Values Space and Place THE PERSPECTIVE OF EXPERIENCE Yi-Fu Tuan 1959 : Patti Smith Peace and Noise Lingering at the threshold between word and image Cy Twombly Claire Daigle https://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/lingering-threshold-between-word-and-image Although his work resonates strongly with generations of younger artists, ranging from Brice Marden to Richard Prince to…

  • EMULSION : Photographic Landscapes/Drawings/Constructed Spaces

    EMULSION : Photographic Landscapes/Drawings/Constructed Spaces Twilight Abstraction : Liminal Zone Exploring spaces between poetics of photography and the experiential values of dwelling/making/thinking through material. I do not start with the idea but with the experience Peter Lanyon The Experience of Landscape Paintings, Drawings and Photographs South Bank Centre An Anthropology Of Landscape Christopher Tilley, Kate…

  • Collage Works : Architectural Studies. Outpost Studios, Norwich.

    Collage Works : Architectural Studies. Outpost Studios, Norwich.   Source: Collage Works : Architectural Studies. Outpost Studios, Norwich.

  • Bricolage, Creative Audit of Research Topics and Processes

    Bricolage, Creative Audit of Research Topics and Processes THE ARCHITECTURE OF NATURAL LIGHT, Henry Plummer. 2009 THE OTHER ARCHITECTURE, Constructing metaphysical space. Catching The Light. The Entwined History of Light And Mind. Arthur Zajonc EVANESCENCE Orchestration of light to mutate through time PROCESSION Choreography of light for the moving eye VEILS OF GLASS Refraction of…

  • BOUNDARIES AND JUNCTION POINTS ARE IN THE NATURE OF THINGS POINTS OF FRICTION

    BOUNDARIES AND JUNCTION POINTS ARE IN THE NATURE OF THINGS POINTS OF FRICTION  BOUNDARIES AND JUNCTION POINTS Lefebvre, The Production of Space. Lefebvre in his chapter on Spatial Architectonics makes reference to the relationships established by boundaries and the relationship between boundaries and named places. These relationships promote significant and specific conditions or features to…

  • 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.…

  • Working Towards a Secular Retreat in the Landscape

    Working Towards a Secular Retreat in the Landscape  Working Towards a Secular Retreat in the Landscape. The task of architecture is to maintain the differentiation and hierarchical and qualitative articulation of existential space. Instead of participating in the process of further speeding up the experience of the world, architecture has to slow down experience, halt…