Guy Moreton
FHEA

Experience of learning, teaching and assessment practices at undergraduate and postgraduate level since 1999 at UK universities including Norwich University of the Arts, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge; Napier University Edinburgh, Northumbria University Newcastle, The University of Plymouth, Nottingham Trent University, Middlesex University, and the University of Kent.

Scottish Arts Council Research Fellow, Napier University, Edinburgh 1999 – 2000.

Lecturer, BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Practice. Northumbria University 2002-03.

Senior Lecturer in Photography, Solent University Southampton, since 2003.

Course Leader, BA (Hons) Photography, Solent University, 2008 – 2012.

Course Leader, MA Photography, Solent University, 2011 – 2012.

Associate Professor in Photography and Visual Arts, since 2019.

Member, Doctoral Scrutiny Panel.

Photography, contemporary art, and particularly practice-based-research in interdisciplinary areas around landscape, modernity, cultural history, and the image of landscape in the locale of Kurt Schwitters’ Merz constructions in England and Norway; and in the writing of W G Sebald, Nan Shepherd and Jacquetta Hawkes.

Authored books

Ludwig Wittgenstein – There Where You Are Not (book publication 160pp Black Dog Publishing London November 2005 Europe/January 2006 USA ISBN: 1 904772 161 co- author with Dr Michael Nedo, and Alec Finlay

Public (peer-reviewed) exhibitions

2021 Narrative, Figure, Place (New Acquisitions) Southampton City Art Gallery, with John Riddy, Clare Woods, Dan Holdsworth.

2019 Hutopia, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, Chicago, USA. The University of Chicago, with Goshka Macuga, Ewan Telford and Alec Finlay, curated by Dieter Roelstraete.

2018 Machines à Penser, Fondazione Prada Venice, Italy. The Venice Biennale, curated by Dieter Roelstraete (University of Chicago) with Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, Goshka Macuga, Susan Philipsz, Alec Finlay and Mark Riley.

2018 Viewpoints, Photography and Landscape. The Photographers’ Gallery London curated by Fergus Heron (University of Brighton).

2017 Somewhere Becoming Sea, Hull 2017 UK City of Culture, Humber Street Gallery, with Lavinia Greenlaw, Simon Faithfull and Nina Sverdvik. Curated by Film and Video Umbrella.

2016 Full Circle, Solent Showcase, with Roger Ackling, Richard Long, Ben Nicholson and works from the collection of Southampton City Art Gallery

2015 Recent Acquisitions, Southampton City Art Gallery, with Dan Holdsworth, John Riddy, Phyllida Barlow and Caroline Achaintre

2015 In Place of Architecture, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University
2014 Wall to Wall, The Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle. Curated by Film & Video Umbrella London

2012 Guy Moreton ‘Unrecounted’, Solent Showcase Southampton, with an Exhibition publication essay by Dr Robert Macfarlane (University of Cambridge)

2010 Inside the Island/Unutar Otoka/Nell ‘Isola with Chrystel lebas and Jeremy Millar, Curated by Silvia Potočki Smiljanić, the island of Veli Brijuni Croatia

2008 Searching for a Place of Oblivion, The National Art Pavilion, Zagreb Croatia, curated by Dr Sandra Krizic Roban (Institute of Art History, University of Zagreb)

2008 Waterlog The Collection and Usher Gallery, Lincoln. With Tacita Dean, Marcus Coates and Alec Finlay, curated by Jeremy Millar and Film and Video Umbrella.

2007 Waterlog The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, University of East Anglia, and Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, with Tacita Dean, Marcus Coates and Alec Finlay. Conceived and curated by FVU London with Jeremy Millar.

2005 There Where You Are Not, The John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton

See a full list of Guy's publications in his Pure profile

"Because prepositions matter, we might say that Wittgenstein and Thomas – like Guy Moreton – are interested not in how we think about landscape, but how we think with it, how we think through it, or even more radically, how we are thought by it. Moreton’s fine work both documents and extends the tradition of interest in this subject. He has for almost a decade been drawn to landscapes in which – no, through which – major thinking has occurred, and he has been even more specifically drawn to the landscapes of male European émigré thinkers for whom exile, or more precisely a sustained out- of-placeness, has been an intellectually creative condition."
Robert Macfarlane, Unrecounted.

"Guy Moreton's photographs of the ruins of St Andrew's, Walberswick, captured with a 10x8 inch 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).

Guy is currently working on developing new practice-based-research leading towards a major exhibition of his artworks with a partner museum and gallery.

Solent STAR Awards (Student Teaching and Recognition) - Excellent Academic Support, 2016.