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.
And Guy Moreton's photographs of the Yare and Waveney Valley Marshes show landscapes in which each element–air, earth and water–seems to have saturated the others, rendering everything indistinct, letting all landmarks slide towards the horizon, preserving only the atmosphere of the place.
Brian Dillon, Airlocked in Waterlog-Journeys Around an Exhibiton, Film and Video Umbrella London, September 2007