artist in residence
position: artist in residence for the initial four year duration of the lossenham project. see lossenham
collaboration 2025/26: with melvyn evans. (russell – lossenham minerals, sculptural and sound work. (melvyn – painting, printing, sculpture and violin bow production)
sound
1 – lossenham frequencies: album release with invited soloists
2 – tracing pieces: two image based scores for drone composition, improvised flute (paul cheneour), double bass (david leahy)
3 – diagenesis: album with craig tattersall on laaps records
film
1 – uncertain boundaries: a lossenham residency: a film with kit warren
2 – drift where currents carry: 6min film.
writing
the development of  a book about personal forms of practice and new materialisms in practice
geological aesthetics
1 – the development of votive stone sculptural pieces
2 – investigation of a historic mining tailings site (wheal maid, cornwall) with craig tattersall. see saturations
3 – micro-palaeontology investigations at cretaceous sites including: wadhurst clay, ashdown & smokejack quarries, sussex. gault clay, kent. london clay, kent. red chalk, norfolk.
ceramics
1 – lossenham pottery project year one: experimental pottery/archeology in conjunction with isle heritage. research and test the viability of the local lossenham clay, develop, and produce pots from evidence found on a 13c carmelite priory dig, and contemporary ceramic responses using materials from the immediate landscape, the building and firing of a single fire box beehive kiln.
2 – lossenham pottery project year two: collaboration with philip warren. further prospecting the lossenham landscape for materials and making of both contemporary and medieval ware, the building and firing of an experimental twin fire box kiln.
visiting artist
several visiting artist appointments for exeter university: historic mineral extraction (wheal maid). cameraless image capture (falmouth and the lizard), mapping the world otherwise (penzance) thinking with clay (exeter)

riverwork studio: a private art practice that connects ever developing media & technique with philosophical thought and occasional shows and publications. the practice is open to explorative cross disciplinary collaboration.
current geographic scope: england,  france, peru, virgin gorda, st john, barbados, antigua, south india, california, florida keys.

large format wall art:  the development of photographic wall products to help soften corporate spaces. concept, image creation, production and installation.

charles dickens’s england book and film
authors: david nicholas wilkinson, emyln price & russell burden
funding: sky arts
project date:  2008
published:  2009
film photography: film unit photographer imbd
book photography: shooting at well over a hundred locations around england with derek jacobi
graphic design: book design, film quad poster, dvd cover, digital advertisements.

experimental imagery: developed image techniques using light, digital graphics and micro imaging processes
sound studio: composition, studio production/engineering of music projects (1999 smart’ car show-reel)
nebulo design: founder and creative director of the graphic design agency nebulo in 1999 to support ecological/ethical initiatives, cultural & educational sectors, and the creative industries.

ceramics tutor and art department technician: worked as an art technician & teaching support in art departments. helped develop photographic dark rooms, ceramic studios and computer based art suites for schools. taught ceramics in higher education and for school baker days to art teachers.
fine and applied art commissions: work made for clients and exhibition in glass, ceramics, wood, stone and painting and photography. created object and found object assemblages and collections..

geology: a period of intensive palaeontology with a focus on middle albian (gault clay) micro-fossils. helped curate collections including at the british museum.

photography: initial photographic work. several exhibitions featuring pushed ektachrome. published in ‘creative photography’ magazine back to back with chris packham, july 1985