07 February 2014

Claire Morgan


Go away streetlight glow, I'm trying to catch the sunset. 

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THIS artist! It's not often I feel wholeheartedly inspired by an artist, like feel it from my head to toes kind of inspired. But THIS artist! Claire's work does this to me.  

London-based. Installation artist. Maker of "Blood Drawings".


"My work is about our relationship with the rest of nature, explored through notions of change, the passing of time, and the transience of everything around us. For me, creating seemingly solid structures or forms from thousands of individually suspended elements has a direct relation with my experience of these forces. There is a sense of fragility and a lack of solidity that carries through all the sculptures. I feel as if they are somewhere between movement and stillness, and thus in possession of a certain energy... 
Animals, birds and insects have been present in my recent sculptures, and I use suspense to create something akin to freeze frames. In some works, animals might appear to rest, fly or fall through other seemingly solid suspended forms. In other works, insects appear to fly in static formations. The evidence of gravity - or lack of it - inherent in these scenarios is what brings them to life, or death."

Fluid /  Strawberries, taxidermied crow, fishing hooks, nylon

Fantastic Mr. Fox / Torn black polythene, a taxidermied fox, rotted rabbit meat, fishing hooks, nylon, lead, acrylic
A Part at the Seam / Taxidermy Jackdaw, thistle seeds, torn black polythene, lead, nylon, acrylic
A Part at the Seam 
The Colossus / Torn polythene, a taxidermy mute swan, nylon, lead, acrylic
Gone To Seed / Thistle seeds, a taxidermy carrion crow, nylon, lead, acrylic
Untitled / 2 weeks after installation, Approx. 2000 strawberries, nylon thread




Love Will Tear Us Apart / Residues of the taxidermy process, pencil, watercolour on paper
Over & Out / Residues of the taxidermy process, pencil, watercolour on paper
Downtime / Residues of the taxidermy process, pencil, watercolour on paper


*** All images come from www.claire-morgan.co.uk/ and Claire's facebook page.

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