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.
Saturday, 30 March 2013
Paper Interventions/Architecture #3 (work in progress)
Friday, 29 March 2013
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
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.
Saturday, 23 March 2013
The human drawn amongst residues : Subtitles and Spaces "equations filled with unknowns."
The human drawn amongst residues : Subtitles and Spaces "equations filled with unknowns.", a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.
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
Bridging Strategies : Explorations amongst the virtues of not knowing. #3, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.
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.
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Chapter Two :
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.
Monday, 18 March 2013
Aerial Composition (movements inside the Cathedral) : Cyanotype and Sunlight.
Aerial Composition (movements inside the Cathedral) : Cyanotype and Sunlight., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.
Aerial Composition (movements inside the Cathedral) : Cyanotype and Sunlight.
Scripted Space.
Scripted Space., a set on Flickr.
Drawings and Photographs from "Leylines" installation in the Hyde Abbey Gatehouse Chamber, Winchester UK 2013.
