Claire Morgan

Claire Morgan (born 1980 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an Irish artist. She lives and works in the North East of England.
Biography
Morgan was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She studied at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, graduating with a BA Hons in Fine Art Sculpture in 2003.
Her work is inspired by the cycles of nature and the problematic relationships between humans and nature, as well as personal experiences and memories of trauma.
Morgan started out working with temporary materials such as rotting fruit and other organic materials. She is known for suspended installations that often include taxidermy, and also for intricate works on paper.
Selected solo exhibitions
2021 – Claire Morgan: Joy in the pain, Saarlandmuseum Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken, Germany
2019 – Claire Morgan: As I Live and Breathe, The Horniman Museum and Gardens, London, UK
2018 – Claire Morgan: Losses, Deyrolle, Paris, France
2018 – Claire Morgan: Here is the End of All Things, Kunstverein Emsdetten, Germany
2018 – Claire Morgan: Recent Lapses in Judgement, Galerie Karsten Greve, Köln, Germany
2017 – Claire Morgan: My God-shaped Hole, Fondation Francès, Senlis, France
2017 – Claire Morgan: Stop Me Feeling, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, US
2016 – Claire Morgan: The Sound of Silence, Het Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Netherlands
2016 – Claire Morgan: Plenty More Fish In The Sea Angers
2015 – Claire Morgan: The Gathering Dusk, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, France
2014 – Claire Morgan: Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better. Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
2015 – Claire Morgan: Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better. Stadtmuseum Jena, Jena, Germany
2015 – Claire Morgan: Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better. , Saint-Louis, France
2015 – Claire Morgan: Act of God // Höhere Gewalt, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Köln, Germany
2013 – Claire Morgan: Interference, Nässjö Konsthall, Sweden
2013 – Claire Morgan: Arresting Sweden
2012 – Claire Morgan: Gone to Seed, MAC, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2012 – Claire Morgan: Quietus, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
2012 – Claire Morgan: Menagerie, Kunstverein Münsterland, Coesfeld, Germany
2011 – Claire Morgan: About Time, Hub: National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford, UK
2010 – Claire Morgan: Life. Blood, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
2008 – Claire Morgan: Gone with the Wind, Great North Run Cultural Programme, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2008 – Claire Morgan: Chasing Rainbows, Selfridges (Wonder Room Windows), London, UK
Awards
2019 – Fondation Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Prix de Dessin 2019 FR
2007 – Wooda Arts Award, Cornwall UK
2006 – Premio Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Prize for Young Sculptors, Milan IT
2004 – Roy Noakes Award, selected by Royal British Society of Sculptors UK
2004 – Royal British Society of Sculptors, Annual Bursary Award UK
Selected collections
Centre Georges Pompidou
MONA Museum of Old and New Art
Emerige
ALTANA Kulturstiftung
Renschdael Art Foundation
Fondation Frances
Ghisla Art Foundation
ERES Foundation
EIB Institute
References
External links
Artist website
Galerie Karsten Greve
Madame Figaro Interview
Environmental Graffiti
1980 births
Living people
Artists from Northern Ireland
Artists from Belfast
Artists from London
Alumni of Northumbria University
Alumni of Ulster University
21st-century women artists from Northern Ireland
British women sculptors
British artists