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.

Panspermia 2010/Banga, Patti Smith : Layered Drawings/Silent readings/diagrams/ceramics of imaginary space

Patti Smith - After The Gold Rush - Banga, 2012 (A Neil Young Song).

Reading : Slow Philosophy

With Fire, Richard Hirsch

A Life Between Chance and Design (invites the unknown)

Scott Meyer 2012

Hirsch takes us to the heart of the interface between ageless earth and the spare evidence of the rhythm of human utility 

Raku as an Ideology

Breath-Energy-Immanence

Raku, A Review of Contemporary Work

Tim Andrews 1994

The Poetry of The Vessel

A calm invitation to thought and imagination

Chris Tyler

The vessel (making, thinking, subject) as both a historically grounded form, and a vehicle to examine abstract aspects of the physical body and the natural world

Arte Povera/Germano Celant, an aesthetic-philosophical movement

An eclectic synthesis of knowledge fields, that emerges into a total space where disparate categories can meet; a art that asks only for the essential information, that refuses the dialogue with the social and cultural system, and aspires to present itself as something sudden and unforeseen

Materials are substances in becoming

Karen Barad

Towards an Ecology of Materials

Tim Ingold 2012

From the 'objectness' of things to the material flows and formative processes wherein they come into being. It means to think of making as a process of growth or ontogenesis

 

Materials-Centered Perspective

Making, almost defies precise definition

The composition and/or manipulation of materials that bring into being new or revised objects

Tim Ingold 2010

Cultures of thrift and scavenging, maintenance and repair

Making encompasses the ingenuity of fluid, locally situated and adapted technologies

Materials carry on overtaking the formal destinations that, at one time or another, have been assigned to them

Sensibilities and dispositions that are centred on a deep and considered relationship with materials

The Craftsman, Richard Sennett 2008

Crafting, often reconnects mind and body in the sites and processes of production, thereby potentially reconstituting labour processes in ways that ascribe agency to workers

Makers finding ways to resist norms of gender and neoliberal entrepreneurial subjectivities, finding ways and spaces for ethical practice to predominate

Contemporary conceptual ceramics operates at the permeable boundary between art and craft, partaking of aspects of both, and ultimately demonstrating (or performing) that permeability

MAPPING : Ritual,fire and stone : Human Filament

Astronomical data with outline of human form,candles,string and stones on paper.150cm x 240cm

Lead and Glass 2 : Walking Drawing.

Lead and Glass 2 : Walking Drawing., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Amongst lightness and the reverberation of material.

Amongst lightness and the reverberation of material., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

A
Short
History
of
Myth:

Karen Armstrong.

" The history of myth is the history of humanity; our stories and beliefs, our curiosity and attempts to understand the world, link us to our ancestors and each other."