Substance, Memory, Display : Postcard used as index for recorded disc.

Postcard : used as index for recorded disc., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Verso
A for Andromeda, BBC4 27.03.06 90 minutes
1973 Romantic Poets
Disc Full

Fragment of a map, part of a process of inquiry, a testing of visual properties, or just an accumulator for all these things, quietly appropriated into the working practice.

The human drawn amongst residues, 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.

Natural History : Collage with cyanotype inclusions

Natural History : Collage with cyanotype inclusions, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Occurrences,consciousness, body and space.

Occurrences,consciousness, body and space., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Link Gallery Winchester 2009

Link Gallery Winchester 2009, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Chalk figure,human body with local materials.

Artist Statement, re proposal for “Strong Voices”. Hyde 900 2010

It is my intension to utilise the ambiguous and strangely intimate nature of a continuous line around a human being to act as a site for the viewer to inhabit an engagement with the work. I am interested in utilizing the “open space” the territory within the traced outline as a sort of vessel for the temporary thoughts and reflections of others. This space hopes to set up a condition, a place that allows a dispassionate observer or thinker time to find and form their own thoughts. The use of material residues left from enactments seems to concur a metaphysical presence to that of the inner trace. The use of simple materiality (clay, chalk, rust) invokes a notion of a shared simple relation, to the human form; these sensibilities are reflected in artists like Giuseppe Penone and other Arte Povera artists. The use of light sensitive materials, liquid light and cyanotype brings the representation of worlds into proximity of a human absence. Photographic processes also bring with them a surface of compressed and superimposed time, an event through which time has left behind, like the trace we are left thinking and reflecting a loss that creates equilibrium in the present. To add a presence of temporality and nowness, water vapour has been sprayed onto the chalk creating moisture a breath around absences.

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Research Collage : 10 June 2012.

Research Collage : 10 June 2012., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Collage marking visually current research interests and intersections amongst some of the accumulated materials of the practice.

Immateriality in the "process" : Working in the Granary.

In the "process" : Working in the Granary., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Digital image of studio space with work in progress (Panspermia).

Field Studies #3 - ART-ON-GOOGLE

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The wonder of minor experiences,

enmeshed image from a working place, (the lab table). - ART-ON-GOOGLE

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The wonder of minor experiences,

Enmeshed space, working drawing with handwritten notes 2010

Enmeshed space, working drawing with handwritten notes 2010, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Ceramic form on a generative working drawing.

DSC_5423, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Part of a series of speculative drawings with objects, interested in bringing these elements into architectural forms and surfaces, maybe textures. Recent reading of "Natural History" which documents the exhibition "Archaeology of the mind " which centres around the architectural practice of Herzog and de Meuron has prompted me to reflect on their comment

"Our models and experiments with material are not works of art, but rather a kind of accumulated waste"