Claire Morgan

Claire Morgan (born 1980 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an internationally exhibited sculptor and artist who lives and works in London, England.

Art fairs

2011 – Salon du Dessin, Art Cologne, Art Basel, Fiac (with Galerie Karsten Greve)

2010 – Art Cologne, FIAC (with Galerie Karsten Greve)

2009 – FIAC (with Galerie Karsten Greve)

2008 – DNA @ Form Art and Design Fair, London

Awards

2007 – COURVOISIER® The Future 500 rising stars – ranked top 10 Art & Design in The Observer Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007 – shortlisted

2006 – Your Gallery @ The Guardian, voted top 10 artists on www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery Premio Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, first prize of 10,000 Euro for 'Red or Dead'

2004 – Roy Noakes Award, selected by Royal British Society of Sculptors, Annual Bursary Award

2003 – Short-listed for the Shrewsbury Sotheby's Prize & winner of the Peoples Choice Prize

Residencies

2007 – Artist in Residence at Adventure Ecology // Wooda Arts Award, February – March, Wooda Farm, Cornwall

2006 – 8-week 'Art and the Public Realm' residency at Persistence Works, Sheffield // Artist in Residence, Belfast Print Workshop, Northern Ireland

2005 – Out There, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich // Bolwick arts 3, a site-specific art residency at Bolwick Hall, Norfolk

2003 – Fine Art Fellowship, Northumbria University, School of Art

2002 – Konturen, a 10-day international workshop, based in Bentlage, Germany

Selected Commissions

2010 – To Woo You, Town Hall Hotel, London

2009 – Canopy, The Big Chill Festival 2009, Herefordshire // Pressure Makes Diamonds, Assembly Square, Cardiff Bay

2008 – Untitled seasonal installations designed in collaboration with Selfridge's // Spooning, Sheffield Millennium Galleries, Sheffield // Re(a)d, HLC, Telford

2007 – Vital Signs, Cardiff University

2006 – A New Moon (below), toured to Bristol Broadmeads Rising Tide, Temporary Address, Blyth, Northumberland

2005 – A New Moon, Whitstable Harbour, commissioned by Canterbury Council // Shift, Tynemouth Station, Tyne and Wear, commissioned by Nexus

2004 – Leave, Westonbirt Festival of the Garden 2004 // Parallel, Grainger Market, Art in the Market, Newcastle upon Tyne

Collections

Installations and works on paper are in numerous private collections in the UK, Europe and Australia, including MONA, Altana, Guerlain