Quick Facts
Biography
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