Negative Capability : The Link Gallery, Winchester University.

By Russell Moreton 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 process then displaying the results in the gallery and inviting writers to respond.

Artists. Susan Wood, Nicola Saunderson, Russell Moreton, Sophie Cunningham Dawe.

Writers. Madelaine Smith, Brian Evans-Jones, Ilse Cornwall-Ross, Stephen Boyce.

Local artists and writers respond to the University of Winchester's Magdalen Hill Archaeological Research Project through the Keatsian approach of 'negative capability' - that of 'being with uncertainty'.

Russell Moreton

Fictioning Apparatuses~Site : Morn Hill Winchester.

On the Inner Life of Things : Painterly Dissolutions~Emulsions~Viscous Light.

Craft and Art : Skill and Anxiety.

Craft is logic, and art defies it. The defiance is what makes art. The serenity of the artisan lies in her knowledge that it can all be done again. The anxiety of the artist; lies in knowing that if it is done again, she has become an artisan. (Gopnik,2014:7)

Edmund de Waal is a maker of objects with imagined histories. (Gopnik,2014:11)

Atemwende : A breathturn.

Edmund de Waal.

The Great Glass Case of Beautiful Things:

Extracting Context and Content. Clay+Ceramics in Contemporary Art.

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