Saturday 30 March 2013

Paper Interventions/Architecture #3 (work in progress)

Amulets have appeared throughout history and across cultures in a variety of forms.
They are tiny embodiments of the anxieties we feel and their assumed powers often
draw on the dark arts of superstition and magic.
Charmed Life is curated by artist Felicity Powell and features 380 amulets from the Pitt
Rivers Museum. The amulets, ranging from simple coins to meticulously carved shells,
dead animals to elaborately fashioned notes, were collected by the banker and
obsessive folklorist Edward Lovett who scoured London by night, buying curious
objects from the city’s mudlarks, barrow men and sailors.
The exhibition includes new pieces and videos by the artist.
A touring exhibition from Wellcome Collection, London in partnership with Pitt Rivers
Museum, Oxford.

Architectural Plan : Journey and Musical Movement #2

Tuesday 26 March 2013

Leylines : Drawing frame, lead strip and drawings.

Seed Dispersal (702) Tidbury Ring

Scottish Odyssey : The Sea Cave (Fingal's Cave, collage from artist's journal)

Digital Abstractions : Visual Information

Subjective Responses (collage) July 2005 : #5

Subjective Responses (collage) July 2005 : #6

A Scottish Odyssey : The Journey to Staffa (collage in artist's journal)

Sunday 24 March 2013

Paper Interventions/Architecture #1 (work in progress)

Amulets have appeared throughout history and across cultures in a variety of forms.
They are tiny embodiments of the anxieties we feel and their assumed powers often
draw on the dark arts of superstition and magic.
Charmed Life is curated by artist Felicity Powell and features 380 amulets from the Pitt
Rivers Museum. The amulets, ranging from simple coins to meticulously carved shells,
dead animals to elaborately fashioned notes, were collected by the banker and
obsessive folklorist Edward Lovett who scoured London by night, buying curious
objects from the city’s mudlarks, barrow men and sailors.
The exhibition includes new pieces and videos by the artist.
A touring exhibition from Wellcome Collection, London in partnership with Pitt Rivers
Museum, Oxford.

Site Drawing (detail)

Site Drawing (detail) by Russell Moreton
Site Drawing (detail), a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Substance and Trace: Humanity of a child.

Visual Complexity: Creating a personal cosmology .

Saturday 23 March 2013

The human drawn amongst residues : Subtitles and Spaces "equations filled with unknowns."

Human form (detail) rendered from performance, outline and sedimentation. Drawing on paper with wax and liquid rust residues from obsolete machine parts. Material sourced from the artist's own biographical accumulations.

Bridging Strategies : Explorations amongst the virtues of not knowing. #3

The making of things and discovering relationships.

Constructing site and situation based methodologies.

Playing out in the public realm, exploring through spatial engagements the "virtues" of courage, caution,confidence and risk.

Consciousness and Beauty : Collage with Cyanotypes

Studio Practices : The Yard, Winchester

Tuesday 19 March 2013

Blue Room with Screen (8mm Projector) : Cyanotype Print.

Chapter Two :

Chapter Two : by Russell Moreton
Chapter Two :, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

THE COMING OF THE IGUANAS

The succession of gigantic geophysical upheavals which had transformed the Earth's climate had made their first impact some sixty or seventy years earlier. A series of violent and prolonged solar storms lasting several years caused by a sudden instability in the Sun had enlarged the Van Allen belts and diminished the Earth's gravitational hold upon the outer layers of the ionosphere. As these vanished into space, depleting the Earth's barrier against the full impact of solar radiation, temperatures began to climb steadily, the heated atmosphere expanding outwards into the ionosphere where the cycle was completed.

JG Ballard, The Drowned World.

Light Slide : Glass Object (363)

Monday 18 March 2013