EXPLORATORY CLAY/CERAMIC BASED INQUIRY : Ceramics and Architecture.

 

EXPLORATORY CLAY/CERAMIC BASED INQUIRY  2023 Russell Moreton.

Working Title/Creative entanglements in a world of materials.

Ceramics for a reflective solitude, an architecture of silence. 

My intention is to develop further ceramic processes and forms that can be further articulated into specific site based objects. I am very interested in the spatial relationships and aesthetics of ceramics and their place in architectural settings. I wish to further develop my practical working knowledge, and a creative sensibility towards the haptic qualities of  making with clay and the unifying element of fire.

Studio program.

Clay bodies, making facilities, ceramic tests, development of simple forms on which to present ceramic experimentation. Analysis of findings, further developments from exploratory findings into new processes and ways of making. Sketchbooks, drawings and photography, text and collage.

Thrown Vessels, innerness, Edmund de Waal. 

Spaces between Ceramic Objects, Giorgio Morandi. 

The Ceramic Surface, Richard Hirsch.

Supporting Notes. Current Interests.

Areas Of Presentation and Participation.

Historic and Social Sites, Art venues and Exhibitions. Making Theoretical Objects, Installation, Workshops.

Reading/research alongside residency. Intertwining Thinking and Making.

The Eyes Of The Skin. Clare Twomey

Tony Cragg

 Julian Stair 

Bryan Newman

Gordon Baldwin

Richard Hirsch 

Edmund de Waal 

Juhani Pallasmaa 

Steven Holl

Objects for a Landscape.

Marking the Line : Ceramics and Architecture. 

With Fire : A Life Between Chance and Design.

Paintings of nothing series, ceramic,raw material, dry pigment, wax. 

Bridge/Boat based conceptual forms.

Urban Spaces, palimpsest,impressions, traces. 

Ceramic Processes 

Additions to clay bodies

Hybrid combinations and making processes

Plasterwork, pressmoulding, sledged forms, templates, slabwork, thrown, handbuilt. 

Firing processes and new possibilities of scale and quantity.

Red Kiln, refurbished, Harleston.

Once fire Raku based clay bodies and engobes/slips/oxides and other surface treatments.