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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  • Working Space with wire sculpture/drawing structure , Andover College 24.11.2010.

    Working Space with wire sculpture/drawing structure , Andover College 24.11.2010., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr. Education Project Residency: Andover College. 2010 Russell Moreton Andover College provided a dedicated workspace for Russell Moreton to develop his research and practice, sharing his time between the two sites. Brief outline of initial thoughts and intentions… “Setting…

  • The Laboratory , Canterbury 2009

    The Laboratory , Canterbury 2009, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr. Tim Ingold MAKING 2013 Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture. Practical Geometry The Architect and The Carpenter The Cathedral and The Laboratory Templates and Geometry The Return to Alchemy Cyanotype image from pinhole camera with sound intervention/device within the apparatus of the camera, performative…

  • Auguries into the maternal body. Un-fired clay and silica sand.. 2011

    Auguries into the maternal body. Un-fired clay and silica sand.. 2011, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr. Constructed in-situ at the Yard,Winchester. A life-size record and memory of a human presence as a site for mutual introspection. Inspired in part from the novel ” The Children of Men ” by P D James. Artist…

  • Assembling Place : Research Collage/Montage #2

    Assembling Place : Research Collage/Montage #2, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

  • Anthropomorphic Geography on Earthen Ground

    Anthropomorphic Geography on Earthen Ground, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr. Against SPACE : Place-Movement-Knowledge “I wish to argue, in this chapter against the notion of space. Of all the terms we use to describe the world we inhabit, it is the most abstract, the most empty, the most detached from the realities of…

  • Presentation Slide : Heuristic Practices/Strategies.

    Presentation Slide : Heuristic Practices/Strategies., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr. The Architecture of Continuity : Lars Spuybroek, essays and conversations. Rotterdam 2008. The Poetics of Memory “The Cinema of Robert Lepage : Alexsander Dundjerovic. London 2003. Spatiality : Robert T. Tally Jr. London 2013. The Poetics of Reverie “Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos”…

  • Photogram (637) Time Zones in the Abbey.

    Photogram (637) Time Zones in the Abbey., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

  • An Apparatus in the Politics of Space.

    An Apparatus in the Politics of Space., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

  • The Mirrored Abbey : Humanity

    The Mirrored Abbey : Humanity, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr. The Custodians, Richard Cowper 1976. russellmoreton.wordpress.com/ russellmoreton.tumblr.com/archive Humanity : An Emotional History Stuart Walton. 2004 Fear Anger Disgust Sadness Jealousy Contempt Shame Embarrassment Surprise Happiness

  • Bodily Intraventions : The Spatial Apparatus of Photography.

    Bodily Intraventions : The Spatial Apparatus of Photography., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr. Research document with performative/speculative enactments,Spatial Practices, UCA Canterbury. Pinhole camera image, long exposure resulting in the recorded semblance of three standing “poses” recorded as a collage of dwelling amongst a placed space.