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.

This artist will be taking-up a forthcoming educational residency at Andover College.

Exhibitions

2010. Hyde 900, Strong Voices, Interfaith Group . Link Gallery Winchester (life size trace/drawing of human absence with local materials, field chalk, water.).

2009. 10 Days at the Old Laundry, Winchester ( in-situ performative use of large mobile pin-hole camera in operation whilst exhibition was open)

2007. Wolvesey Castle, Winchester ( installation in foundations and drainage channels , poetic (childhood) transgressions (oversized paper boats) around property “out of bounds” ) public access to site denied, viewed only from raised platform.

2006. Hampshire Open Studios, Bramdean ( drawings, artist books, photography and garden sculpture) Temporary Art space appropriated from family greenhouse, whitewashed glass and all white interior, limited access to 2-3 people.

2005. Drawing Spaces, Hartley Library Southampton, collaborative forum with work in-situ amongst other practitioners.

Awards/ Funding.
2009. Canterbury School of Architecture, Scholarship re Spatial Practice MA.

Education

2008-2010. Spatial Practices MA.Canterbury School of Architecture,(current study )
2004-2008. Visual Fine Art BA Hons. Winchester School of Art ,
1982-1984.Ceramics HSND . Epsom School of Art and Design,
1977-1978. Farnham Sixth Form College.
1973 -1977. Bearwood College, Wokingham.

Other significant studies qualifications.

2004-2006. South Downs College, Sculpture NCFE level 3.

Workshops and short courses attended.

2006.. Lost Wax and Kiln Cast Glass. Liquid Glass Centre, Trowbridge
2005. Pinhole Photography, Stuart Quinnell. Bradford on Avon,
2003. . Drawing Course ,Michael Grimshaw. Winchester School of Art,
2002. Mono Printing and Life Drawing,Valerie Wiffin. West Dean College,
2001-2003.Life Sculpture , Les Johnson The Vine Centre, Basingstoke
1993-2003. Life Drawing Adult Education. Weeke Centre, Winchester.
1998. Tactile Light. Photography with Liquid Light, Yoke Matze West Dean College,
1995. Box mounting, Art Conservation. West Dean College, Picture Framing,
1988.Master Class in Glass Painting and Traditional Leaded Glass, Paul Quail. West Dean College,
1985-1992. Sculpture Harvey Road, Life Drawing Trevor Collis, and Photography, Welding. Guildford, Adult Education.

Working Practice.
2010. Chapel Arts, Andover, research residency, with Education Residency at Andover College.
2010. Studio space, The Yard, Winchester.
2009. Professional Art Practice now at The Granary Brockwood, Bramdean. current studio space.
2001-2009. Expanded to Hedge Corner Farm, units 1-2. Colemore.
1990-2001. Leaded Light Windows, Petersfield,
1988-89 . Tindle Enterprises, Whitehill, set-up Leaded Light business.
1983-1986. Set-up Studio Ceramics ,in architectural ceramics and glass, utilizing “Raku” designed kilns , Godalming.

Other Work Experience.

1992-2004. Badger Barns, Petersfield. (Partner in family firm constructing oak framed buildings, site/works manager facilitating construction business)
1985-1986. Dexterity Crafts, Walton on the Hill. (set up studio/kiln for proprietor, making of thrown and hand built ceramics)
1979-1981. Grayshott Pottery, Hindhead. (experience of industrial processes of clay production techniques)
1978. Hop Kiln Pottery, Farnham. Family run studio pottery.