Russell Moreton Norfolk, United Kingdom

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Russell Moreton : A visual fine artist is exploring themes around 'Making' involving the imprint of the artist, and metaphysical immersive nature of contemporary art practices and architecture. He is interested in developing collaborative and speculative making spaces where craft, theory, art and architecture can come together.

A site-based practice that further develops into speculative learning, creative propositions for knowledge production through Spatial Practices.

Moreton's site-based practices using clay as his principle material further develops his inquiry into a site based speculative learning, and with it creative propositions for knowledge production through his ceramic objects. He finds in ceramics an analogy with architecture, in particular a resonance of a spatial structure in which the the drama of the building has now ceased.

His practice investigates the interconnectedness of making interior spaces. These works in clay are processual in nature, developed by a need to demarcate and fold material into spatial forms and volumes. The act and gesture of drawing further adds ephemeral marks of process amongst the materiality of the built spaces. Clay slips and other incised marks on both sides of the clay are all interwoven into his spatial forms.

Assemble forms are then divided into several spatial interiors, in which the use of piercings are used through the surface to set up a circulation for light to enter into the interiors. Further firings and more ceramic coatings are applied to further investigate the involuntary relationships that have emerged. These objects are unknowable as they are extracted from the kiln, and as such they act as forms that can take on a theoretical nature, gathering his discursive researches and readings into a performative ceramic body.

For Moreton ceramics help to facilitate the essential auditory experience of silence, as experience by architecture as tranquillity. He is drawn by the solitudes of libraries and the sounds of construction, of pounding on materials, of making and constructing space. Architecture also presents this drama of construction silenced into matter, space and time. His finished fired constructions could become a museum for a waiting, patient silence. The silence of architecture, like that of clay is a responsive, remembering and meditative gathering, a correspondence of matter(s).

Interior Design MA, UCA Farnham. Spatial Practices MA, Canterbury School of Architecture. Visual Art BA Hons, Winchester School of Art. Ceramics HSND, Epsom School of Art and Design.

Artwork

Collage Works, Collage, 2011-2024

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Alchemy at Raveningham Sculpture Trail. 16/07/2025 — 07/09/2025 Raveningham Sculpture Trail 2025. Sensing Places : Towards an Alchemy of Thinking. This site based exploratory apparatus, part self assembly, and part crafted brings together components, materials and filtered light. Built around the involvement of making in the landscape, this event based intervention creates a fictional space... [Read more]	Raveningham	Details
Water at Hungate. 23/06/2023 — 24/09/2023 Water at Hungate. 2023 Hungate Architectural Explorations. Air/Place/Breath/Light/Architecture/Ritual/Social Spaces	The Hungate, Norwich	Details
Volatile Readings~Everyday Enchantments : Biosphere Projects. 2012-2022 01/09/2022 — 06/09/2022 Diffractive Readings/Blue Spaces Of Everyday Enchantments. Spatial blueprints/propositional diagram on the speculative readings from The Order of Time. Carlo Rovelli. The sun has gone mad and stripped the earth of its ionosphere. For decades blasting radiation has poured upon earth, melting the polar caps and turning permafrost into... [Read more]	Outpost Studios Members Show, Norwich	Details
Numinous Odyssey : Raveningham Sculpture Trail. 24/07/2020 — 06/09/2020 Numinous Odyssey : Architectural Canvas/Painting in an English Garden. Raveningham Architectural Canvas/Form Framed-Un-Framed Construction Sensing/Site 2020 Aesthetics between objects Fragments from note books Art Works, a constellation of coincidences/intuitions resting the not being made Re-animating... [Read more]	Raveningham	Details
Outpost Studio Space 3.16 08/10/2018 — 31/01/2025	Gildengate House, Anglia Square., Norwich	Details
Dwelling Places : Raveningham Sculpture Trail. 20/07/2018 — 09/09/2018 Sensing Space. Architectural structure meets visual fine art, as a sculptural assemblage, a resting place created on-site; promoting an inquiry into making~inhabiting and feflexivity amongst a social event and the natural garden landscape.	Raveningham	Details
Norwich and Norfolk Open Studio 2018. 01/06/2018 — 29/06/2018 Open Studio Event. Cyanotype Paintings, Drawings, Collage and Artist Book's.	Studio and Workshop Spaces., Harleston	Details
The Scriptorium : Interiors MA. 01/10/2015 — 14/10/2015 The Scriptorium Mutual Knowledge and Discursive Consciousness Description of Work The ruined site of the abbey at Waverley, near Farnham has been appropriated as a site and as a place within which to position and develop architectural and sociological inquires. The design processes of interiors have been employed as a tool to both... [Read more]	UCA Farnham, Farnham	Details
Contact Photography. 02/10/2013 — 31/10/2013 Russell Moreton is a visual fine artist working with alternative and historic photographic processes. He uses pinhole cameras for inquiry into architectural space, these initial perspectives are further collaged and rendered through the Cyanotype process. He is currently working in the library spaces, and aims to produce a series of working... [Read more]	Discovery Centre, Winchester Library., Winchester	Details
Negative Capability. 27/09/2013 — 03/11/2013 Negative Capability part I is an exhibition of visual and written responses to the University of Winchester’s Magdalen Hill Archaeological Research Project (MHARP), one of the most extensive excavations to date of a medieval leper hospital, almshouse and cemetery complex. The artists observed the excavation team at work, witnessing their... [Read more]	The Link Gallery, Winchester University., Winchester	Details
Leylines. 01/10/2012 — 31/10/2012 “Leylines” has been appropriated and employed as both a practical and as a conceptual strategy to inquiry into places and localities. Site visits and sensitive dialogues with the other artists at a number of locations have further brought materials and processes into the creative realm. The spatial practice of setting-up this work has also... [Read more]	St Bartholomew's Church and Hyde Abbey Gatehouse., Winchester	Details
Speculative Learning Environments. 12/07/2011 — 18/06/2015 Hidden Curriculums A Philosophy of Solitude John Cowper Powys. a thousand plateaus Deleuze, Guattari. Art teacher at Brockwood Park School. 2012-15 Speculative Learning Environments in The Library. Re-Imagining Education AS and A2 Student Exhibition in The Art Barn Brockwood Park. Artist's Studio The Granary... [Read more]	Brockwood Park School., Brockwood.	Details
Creative Visual and Spatial Apparatuses. 01/10/2009 — 10/10/2009 "Ten Days at the Laundry" The Yard an artist studio collective curated an Exhibiton and Event at an alternative venue at the Hyde Laundry Premises in the heart of Winchester. This project brought together artists from different creative groups in Winchester in an sequence of events that cover a range of contrasting disciples never put... [Read more]	10 Days in The Laundry., Winchester	Details

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Artwork

Projects and exhibitions

Alchemy at Raveningham Sculpture Trail.

Water at Hungate.

Volatile Readings~Everyday Enchantments : Biosphere Projects. 2012-2022

Numinous Odyssey : Raveningham Sculpture Trail.

Outpost Studio Space 3.16

Dwelling Places : Raveningham Sculpture Trail.

Norwich and Norfolk Open Studio 2018.

The Scriptorium : Interiors MA.

Contact Photography.

Negative Capability.

Leylines.

Speculative Learning Environments.

Creative Visual and Spatial Apparatuses.

Russell Moreton Norfolk, United Kingdom

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