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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'.

Outpost 1738311751 Russell Moreton

Studio Works : Praxis between theory and practice. Outpost Studios 2018-25

Sensing Places : Towards an Alchemy of Thinking

Clay/Fired Clay : Making Play~Research~Creation

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