Showing posts with label Clare Twomey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clare Twomey. Show all posts

Friday, 3 July 2026

Ceramics and Architecture : Architecting and its ecologies/matters of concern.

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Spatial Bodies~Environments :  Matter(s) of Interference


Architecting and its ecologies/matters of concern.

Circulating Objects : Lines/Holloways.

Making~Journeys.

The items shown in the image are ceramic sculptures by artist Russell Moreton. 

These pieces are part of his exploratory, architectural-themed work. 

They are characterized by a processual nature that focuses on the imprint of the artist and the material itself. 

The sculptures often feature a raw, distressed finish, incorporating white paint and visible construction marks. 

Moreton's practice in these ceramics investigates themes of silence, architectural space, and the interconnectedness of interior spaces. 











The image displays a workspace cluttered with various documents, papers, and art-related materials, suggesting an environment dedicated to research, archival work, or artistic preparation.

Workspace Setting: The desk is heavily organized with stacks of papers, binders, and printed documents, which is characteristic of an academic, curatorial, or creative office space.

Artistic Materials: A large, black-and-white print or photographic work is prominently displayed on a board in the background, surrounded by smaller reference materials pinned to the wall.

Documentation: The presence of extensive paperwork and what appears to be exhibition or research documentation suggests the space is used for managing art projects, publications, or historical research.

Professional Environment: The overall composition implies a professional or semi-professional setting, likely related to art history, gallery management, or creative practice, where the physical handling of documents and visual references is central to daily work.


The body's participation in explorations, engagements and its care in attending to the values of immediacy, vulnerability, fragility, improvisation, performance, movement, multiplicity and becoming.


Apparatuses and their ecologies for learning.

The choreographic object/agent.

The role of the body is scored through a shifting agency and the power of techniques of things.


Theoretical objects of things which do theory without us imposing it, on them.

Oren Lieberman. 2013.


The Production of The Unexpected.

The Joy of Speculative Play.


Perception/Thought/Action

A caring curiosity that wants to know and understand and explore relations.


Projective Speculations.

Ecologies/Locations.

Questioning/Research.





The objects in the image are slab-built ceramic sculptures created by the artist Russell Moreton. 

Artist: Russell Moreton.

Medium: Clay.

Technique: Hand-built using slab construction.

Style: The works are processual in nature, featuring raw, distressed finishes and architectural themes.

Inspiration: The artist's work often explores the interconnectedness of interior spaces, architectural settings, and the imprint of the maker.


Processual learning occurs in movements, gestures, postures, expressions and exchanges with other bodies and things.


Landscapes Of Actions.

Modalities Of Intravention

Constitutive Qualities Of Dance.


Ephemerality

Corporeality

Precariousness

Scoring

Performativity



If we start by moving, by thinking through moving, and by living through moving. We'll arrive to that disturbing vision : that the predicament of dance is to be an art of erasure. Dance always vanishes in front of our eyes in order to create a new past. The dance exists ultimately as a mnemonic ghost of what had just lived there.

Lepecki. 1996.


Bodily interactions highlight the entanglement of material through a process/processual understanding and situated analysis.



The Archive.

Matters of Concern.

Terms of Engagement.

Interrogate with descriptors and new issues of practice.


Bringing Things to Life.

Starting conditions for responsible and curiosity driven engagements with the world.


Place-Refreshed.

New-Agencies


The Interconnectedness of Places.

For Ingold, congealed places become relationships/connections for lines of occupation.


Curriculum making/experience as the enactment of dwelling in places.

Landscape Constructions/Observatory/Garden.

Raveningham, drawing,mapping, landmarking paths, wayfinding, territories.



Ceramics and  Architecture

Marking The Line.

In response to Sir John Soane.

Joanna Bird. 2013



Arranging the physical space/circulation to receive forms/intraventions.


Christie Brown, her practice engages with mythology and narrative and the parellels between psychoanalysis and archaeology through figurative work, which references archaic collections and the significance of inanimate objects in human lives.


Carina Ciscato, relocated to London in 1999, where she worked in the studio of Julian Stair and Edmund de Waal. The move, the contrast in culture and in attitudes to ceramics, has seen her work grow in confidence and move in exciting new architectural directions.


Nicholas Rena, his art is concerned with reconciling the domestic and the sacred, through the medium of the vessel, a form that reveals in a single look an exterior, the figure- and an interior – the inner life. Rena's strong , expressionist forms make explicit this duality, this communion and tension between our inner and outer life. His intensity and feeling for interior space imbues his work with immense presence and stillness.


Clare Twomey is an advocate for craft as commensurable to the wider visual arts. Her practice can be understood as 'post studio ceramics' as her work engages with clay yet often at a critical distance.

Twomey's work negotiates the realms of performance, serial production, and transience, and often involves site-specific installations. She is especially concerned with the affective relations that bind people with things, and how objects can enable a dialogue with a viewer.


Joanna Bird Pottery

Director of the Joanna Bird Foundation.

London.


Ceramic Forms and Paintings.

Materials/Substances on a drawn and constructed surface.

Drawings, wax and yellow ochre on layered canvas and paper.


Water : A Phenomenal Lens.

The transformative properties of the substance.


The 'void space' water gardens and the interior ceilings of the adjacent apartments are connected by reflected light from the ponds. These 'void spaces', three inches of water over black smooth stones from Ise, are analogous to a sacred space within the every day world of domestic urban life.


An attention to phenomenal properties of the transformation of light through material can present poetic tools for making spaces of exhilarating perceptions.


Imaginative metaphysics shows that man becomes all things by not understanding them- for when he does not understand he- becomes them by transformation himself into/with them.

 

Refraction/Reflection/Spatial Reversal Phenomena.


Time : Duration and Perception.


Duration as a multiplicity of secession, fusion, and organisation.

Henri Bergson.


One's perception modifies consciousness, attention is broadened, time is distended, just as in the density of language.


Thus when I measure time, I measure impressions, modifications of consciousness.

Saint Augustin.


Time conceived as the analog between architecture and cinema, passing time was measured and observed in a precise strip of sunlight which slowly formed different reflections as it passed across the glossy lack floor.


The physical and perceptual experience of architecture is not a scattering or dispersion, but a concentration of energy. This physically experienced 'lived time' is measured in the memory and the soul in contrast to the dismemberment of fragmented messages of media..


Steven Holl.


Hungate, Norwich. 



Anglian Potters

Undercroft, Norwich. 2023


Helgate Proposal

Exploratory Ceramic Practice.



Clay Making. 

Plaster Work.

Commissioning of Gas Kiln for large scale works.

Glass Tech Kiln.

Saturday, 22 February 2025

Ceramic Practice/Perception/Mind and Medium/The Jug/Things and Abstracts.

Ceramic Practice and Perception

Mind and Medium

Heuristic Material : Collage 

1. encouraging a person to learn, discover, understand, or solve problems on his or her own, as by experimenting, evaluating possible answers or solutions, or by trial and error: a heuristic teaching method.

2. serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.

abstracts : The Ruins of Cinema/Waverley Abbey Construction.












Flux/Fusion with nothingness and absorption 

Symbiotic relationship, feeding life, breath, energy, immanence


The visceral dark pots, meditations on existential feelings, volumes for thoughts, voids for imagination and fear, ecologies for living. 


The “New Ceramic Presence” a metamorphosis of meanings rather than in the eternity of symbols.


As always, the artist is led, not by patron, not by populace, certainly not by the critic, artist is led by artist. The artist is his/her own culture.

Rose Slivka. The New Ceramic Presence. 1961


The Garden Of Forking Paths

Chieko Mori, Spiral Wave

James Blackshaw, The Broken Hourglass

Helena Espuall, Home of Shadows and Whirlwinds

Jozef Van Wissem, The Mirror of Eternal Light

Chieko Mori, Tokyo Light



The very materiality forces its very form.

Pots invite us to consider the world that is gathered around them and through them. 


Loss of Relativity and the Forgetting of Air

Ceramics of immediacy/sensate in its own implicit space


And into the Fire

Post Studio Ceramics in Britain

Glenn Anderson. 2010


The politics of place rather than the nature of objects.

Clare Twomey most defines the post studio moment in British Ceramics.


Potters are making pots to be 'expressively photographed'.

Paintings have lost their 'relativity' becoming images rather can things. 


Rawson's ideal pot would die quietly in a glossy photograph, but comes to life in the hands.


Clay and mind works with the tactility formed and found from the voids of inside/outside divisions.


For Heidegger, the potter's medium is not clay, but space itself.

The thing of his essay is not a particular jug, but the essence of one.


The thrown walls of a jug may address that space. But the content or purpose of the object remains the voids within it and around it, which it brings into a sort of communion with one another.


Raku as an ideology


A philosophy must be arrived at through a direct involvement with the materials and the process.


Clay,The Body, Breath.


Ceramics, Fire,Energy.



The vessel's thingness does not lie at all in the material of which it consists, but in the void that holds it


The potter who forms sides and bottom on his wheel does not strictly speaking make the jug, he only shapes the clay, no, he shapes the void. For it, in it, and out of it, he forms the clay into the form. From start to finish the potter takes hold of the impalpable void and brings it forth as a container in the shape of a containing vessel.

Heidegger. Poetry Language Thought 1971. The Thing 1950.


Pots always inhabit espace-milieu for the pots own space is continuous with the space around it, into which it extends and which makes it perceptable.


Anecdote of The Jar.

Wallace Stevens. 1919.


The pot/jar/jug does very little to dictate what happens around it. But it nonetheless conditions that reality, takes dominion.


The Vessel

Death and The Human Body


Each object has palpable weight, stands its ground, each has a definite thickness. A thick wall that reciprocally shields the darkness within, from the light without.

Glenn Adamson. Matters of Fact.



The containment of the body in death.


Existential

Clay Jug as an emblematic object full of billions of stars

Jackie Leven


There is something about clay that is elemental, prebiotic. Many creation myths refer to the forming of man from clay, its the stuff of the world we live in, its what we walk on. Taking that material which symbolises our origins and then making vessels to house the body, creates a wonderful kind of circularity.

Julian Stair. Quietus 2012.


Paul Soldner on Raku as a state of mind, a way of thinking, a way to continue to create with the pot after firing. Raku for me creates a way of living, not a technique but an attitude for life. 

The intrinsic nature of the intimate contact with the pot continues to stimulate the potters response, the pot in its becoming is both a beginning and an end.


A distinguished Japanese potter, Mr Kawai of Kyoto, when asked how people are to recognize good work, answered simply, “with their bodies”. 


Bernard Leach

A Potter's Book


Symbiotic Relationships


Atmospheres and Surrounding Objects

Peter Zumthor 





Unknown Craftsman

Soetsu Yanagi


Put aside the desire to judge immediately, acquire the habit of just looking.


Do not treat the object as an object for the intellect.


Just be ready to receive passively without interposing yourself.