Friday 31 January 2014
Wednesday 29 January 2014
Anthropology a collage of agents. #8
Pierced template and text fragment from Chora L Works, Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman.
Anthropology a collage of agents. #9
Pierced template and text fragment from Chora L Works, Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman.
Sunday 26 January 2014
Drawing Spatial Forms : The Poetic Image
Speculative Building Sites : Blueprints with materials and forms.
Wednesday 22 January 2014
The Politics of Things : Cyanotype Poster
Tim Ingold
MAKING 2013
Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture.
Practical Geometry
The Architect and The Carpenter
The Cathedral and The Laboratory
Templates and Geometry
The Return to Alchemy
Cyanotype image from pinhole camera with sound intervention/device within the apparatus of the camera, performative material gathered from the Canterbury School of Architecture.
UCA Spatial Practices MA under Oren Lieberman.
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Sunday 19 January 2014
Drawing 2011. Classical study from an anatomical drawing.
“At present, we still need biological brains to provide the cross-referencing and association, but more sophisticated software and faster hardware will increasingly usurp even that function."
Net Gain : Richard Dawkins
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How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?
The Net’s Impact on Our Minds and Future
Edited by John Brockman 2011
Drawing,tracing and shadow, anatomical study with photogram ( text from an introduction to a garden in Italy, Bomarzo).
Drawing explores/re-imagines outlines and interiors.
Saturday 18 January 2014
Working Visuals #10
Spatial Intelligence
New Futures for Architecture
Leon van Schaik
Archaeological Site, Morn Hill, Winchester.
Friday 17 January 2014
Pastoral Space: Material,Inquiry and Craft.#3
Visualising Environmental Agency
"Agents are defined as persons or things, which have the ability and intention to "cause" something "in the vicinity" or "in the mileau" to happen ( Gell 1998)"
"These latter artefacts are described with the term "index", to remove the appellation "art" and to imply that they are indexes of agency."
Some Stimulating Solutions, Andrew Cochrane.
Drawing on snow,a field in winter 2010. Bramdean,Hampshire.
Pastoral Space: Material,Inquiry and Craft.#4
Visualising Environmental Agency
"Agents are defined as persons or things, which have the ability and intention to "cause" something "in the vicinity" or "in the mileau" to happen ( Gell 1998)"
"These latter artefacts are described with the term "index", to remove the appellation "art" and to imply that they are indexes of agency."
Some Stimulating Solutions, Andrew Cochrane.
1000 "pots" performative site 2011. The Yard, Winchester.
Drawing Scripts : Light Sensitive Spaces. #1
Working Notes/Scripted Drawing
Contents/Space Page
"Boundaries and junctions points are in the nature of things points of friction"
Lefebvre, The Production of Space.
The act of "blocking in" the dimensions of another space within the continuum of another can propose to create a temporal junction between a host space and a new site within this host, a guest. This activity also has associations with nomadic and agricultural-pastoral societies as they use paths and routes as spatio-temporal markers or determinants.
R Moreton, Working Notes, Spatial Practices, Canterbury
Drawing with Layered Architectural Drawings
Site
Arte Povera
Material
Body
Social Space
"Translates the painterly relationship of figure and ground into the space of real situations"
The Visual Poetics of Jannis Kounellis, Suzanne Cotter and Andrew Nairne.
Modern Art Oxford, 2004-2005
Thursday 16 January 2014
Working Visuals #5
Gridshell Interior : Singleton Open Air Museum.
Photographic Diagram : The Setting out of Borrowstone Rig (fragment)
Time Stands Still, Keith Critchlow
Working Visuals #2
Spatial Intelligence
New Futures for Architecture
Leon van Schaik
Archaeological Site, Morn Hill, Winchester.
Analogue image and collage.
Tuesday 14 January 2014
Monday 13 January 2014
Narratives of Birth : Poetics of Memory #4
Architectural Intervention : Working Collage for Glass
Fetal Medicine Centre
Prosound SSD-5000 V4
ALOKA
Astronomical Mapping/ Birth Scan
Scale, Interior, Time, Spatial Presences, Human Becoming,
Saturday 11 January 2014
Space Frames : Between the discursive and the visual.
Traditional Cyanotype formula applied via brush to untreated paper, oil pastels used to form areas that resist the cyanotype fluid. Transparency from an earlier drawing used as a stencil,exposure to the sun ( 18 minutes) Developed in water, slight re exposure to sunlight and then development with citric acid and water.
Wednesday 8 January 2014
Drawing : Throwing and Retrieving a Stone. (detail).2010
Performative drawing and impression gathered from the roof of the Bargate, Southampton.
Tuesday 7 January 2014
Monday 6 January 2014
Leylines Installation : Mapping Tool #3
“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 produced insightful local knowledge from those dwelling nearby.
Beams and Netting: Negotiations in the chamber.
Clay, Hessian, drawings and transparencies from architectural openings, drawing frame, antique glass, lead and nylon lines.
This intervention into a listed building has become a temporary refuge for a work in progress. The work attempts to show a creative agency as it encounters a host of installed hierarchies and conditions. The architectural motif on the drawings has been derived directly from the open apertures of the chamber, and these drawings also reference the supportive ironwork (Ferramenta) which has been playfully re-registered as a graphic leyline . A drawing frame similar to that used in archaeology for drawing has been adapted to illustrate the relative positions of the leyline as registered by the ordnance survey grid, both terminuses being labelled on the frames periphery.
Unresolved Reverberations : #2 Solar Spore.
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Drawing and Assemblage : Cyanotype process on watercolour paper with lead profiles.
Drawing and Assemblage : Cyanotype process on watercolour paper with lead profiles., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.
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#2 Workplace Andover College 16.11.2010 (detail from wall collage)
#2 Workplace Andover College 16.11.2010 (detail from wall collage), a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.
Education Project Residency: Andover College. 2010
Russell Moreton
Andover College provided a dedicated workspace for Russell Moreton to develop his research and practice, sharing his time between the two sites.
Brief outline of initial thoughts and intentions...
"Setting up a Diversion for Creative Exchange.
Interested in grasping the opportunity at Andover College to further advance my postgraduate studies at Canterbury school of Architecture. The Spatial Practice course at Canterbury has opened-up theoretical methodologies into how we practice, perceive and interact with space. My own research project is centred on issues regarding registering working places. Creative investigation and research into this project has evolved through performative acts, drawings with apparatuses and critical theory.
The aim of this area of my research and practice was an attempt to how I might introduce an intervention into a place that will act as a physical baffle a “bookmark/sounding board” which might allow a “stalled site” to be created within the duration of place. This site will be relational to its placement but also annexed. It is hoped that this site, slightly annexed from its formal relations might render creative transdisplinary dialogues, as a gathering place out of the main flow of activities. This spatial device with its relational surfaces and volumes will attempt to harbour a tangible space, a forum of reference even in absence of its author/installer and custodian. It will grant a sense of hospitality, and a working space to those prepared to dwell.
The encountering material dialogue (stuff) of this diversion and its site will initially utilize my experience with contemporary drawing, its gestures and acts and this will be augmented by the malleable and transformative medium of clay. The contemporary issues regarding the use of clay and ceramics amongst contemporary practitioners will be researched, including the growing number of performance and site specific works. The implications and findings of this dialogue might be further transposed into the Architectural realm through surface and volumes amongst other materials and structures."
text by Russell Moreton
Saturday 4 January 2014
Russell Moreton : Exhibition of working practices.
Artist Statement/Chapel Arts Residency
Practitioner using the creative receptiveness of material together with the inclusion of drawing to harbour transits and passages of human presence, vulnerabilities centred around the human condition. My work adopts strategies which articulate a sense of absence and anonymity within the abandonment of the work to its location. I feel drawn to this registering of passage, encounter together with its farewell. The choice of materials gathered together implies a personal geography, with both an emotional and aesthetic sense of locality and place. The performative recording by physical means which renders itself as a trace of human presence, now becomes a vacant territory open for the consideration of others.
My work continues to investigate this sense of material response with the performative trace of a human absences. The place-ment of these acts attempts to promote thresholds from which to reflect upon spatial, sociological and psychological conditions and perceptions.
Currently working in clay, low fired to produce and promote a fragile vessel. This vessel is installed to act as a dwelling presence reverberating in a resting place. from which work is drawn into the human form to register a surface of absences resulting from past gestures and solitudes.
Russell Moreton a visual artist uses simple gestures of drawn Human traces gathered and presented amongst natural materials. Exploring themes around the Human condition, vulnerability and abandonment. Materials are employed to further underpin our sense of place and time. The act and gesture of drawing adds a ephemeral mark amongst the materiality and locality of place. Currently using clay to register these themes, installing work Augury Vessel 2010 into Chapel Arts as part of their research residency programme.
Situation/Architecture : Energy/Clay. Joseph Beuys, Tate Modern 2013. #2
Situation/Architecture : Energy/Clay. Joseph Beuys, Tate Modern 2013. #2, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.
Joseph Beuys : Table with Accumulator 1958-85
In this work, an accumulator – a kind of rechargeable battery in which energy can be stored - is attached by wires to two pieces of clay, as if drawing power from the earth itself. For Beuys, the production and storage of energy was a metaphor for the creative and spiritual energy that he wanted to foster both in the individual viewer and in society as a whole. This was one of the works that Beuys included in the 1982 Zeitgeist exhibition, accompanying the various elements of Lightning with Stag in its Glare.
Thursday 2 January 2014
Wednesday 1 January 2014
Anthropomorphic Geography on Earthen Ground
Against SPACE : Place-Movement-Knowledge
"I wish to argue, in this chapter against the notion of space. Of all the terms we use to describe the world we inhabit, it is the most abstract, the most empty, the most detached from the realities of life and experience."
Tim Ingold
Environments
Land
Earth
Pastures
Country
Ground
Landscape
Indoors
Open
Sky
Air
Presentation Slide : Heuristic Practices/Strategies.
The Architecture of Continuity : Lars Spuybroek, essays and conversations. Rotterdam 2008.
The Poetics of Memory "The Cinema of Robert Lepage : Alexsander Dundjerovic. London 2003.
Spatiality : Robert T. Tally Jr. London 2013.
The Poetics of Reverie "Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos" : Gaston Bachelard
(trans Daneil Russell). Boston 1971.