#residues

Maternal Body : Clay Impression and Fragmented Form by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: Auguries into the maternal body. Un-fired clay and silica sand. Constructed in-situ at the Yard, Winchester. A life-size record and memory of a human presence as a site for mutual introspection. Inspired in part from the novel " The Children of Men " by P D James. 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 into Chapel Arts as part of their research residency programme.

EMULSION : Photographic Landscape by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: russellmoreton.tumblr.com/archive I do not start with the idea but with the experience Peter Lanyon The Experience of Landscape Paintings, Drawings and Photographs South Bank Centre An Anthropology Of Landscape Christopher Tilley, Kate Cameron-Daum The Poetics of Space. Gaston Bachelard. The classic look at how we experience intimate places. The Eroded Steps. Giuseppe Penone. Dean Clough Contour Lines. Land Drawings, Installations, Excavations. Kate Whiteford. Remote Sensing. Colin Renfrew. ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics Timothy Morton Ordinary Lives Studies in the Everyday Ben Highmore The Art of Survival? Jacqueline Rose Essay for 'Elsewhere' Therese Oulton Hermeneutic Philosophy and The Sociology of Art Janet Wolff Hermeneutics Jens Zimmermann