Biography
Guy Moreton
Guy Moreton is an artist and Associate Professor in the School of Art, Design and Fashion, Southampton Solent University; where he is Course Leader of the MA Photography programme. Following undergraduate studies in Photography and postgraduate studies in Fine Art he was a guest artist in Rotterdam, Netherlands and Scottish Arts Council Fellow in Photography in Edinburgh. His work engages with the cultural histories and representation of landscape and its relationship to thought in literature, art and philosophy; and has been published and exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, notably in the Whitechapel Gallery London; EAST International Norwich; Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Galway Arts Centre; the John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton; Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery; the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA Norwich; The Collection Lincoln and The Art Pavilion Zagreb, Croatia.
Guy Moreton's photographs of the ruins of St Andrew's, Walberswick, captured with a 10inx8in camera, we get a sense of that dissolution. Lonely, yes, but the images are so dense, rich and sensual we nearly forget that they are recording the continual process of decay. Moreton reminds us that faith erected these places, places that were once inhabited, active, hopeful. They are symbols of eternal life crumbling into dust and ash. By portraying them in quiet dignity, he gives us an assurance of their still-sacred value.
Sarah Emily Miano, The Guardian (Saturday Review) 10.02.2007