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When Le Figaro made a list of 10 artists to watch after FIAC 2012, we thought we should do that. The first presented was Belfast-born, London-based artist Claire Morgan, working with organic materials and taxidermy to create sculptures. Most of the materials are linked to a certain period of the year, thus creating a feeling of specificity. Leaves, strawberries, flies, seeds, butterflies are used in her works and her studio is packed with boxes filled with such things.
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She puts animals in different contexts, where they interact with materials, creating weird sculptures, like the one with the crow hit by strawberries. She is interested in taxidermy and the way in which body and movement changes the once you have a stuffed animal. She questions life and death with her works and the feeling of permanence in the world, even after death.
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“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 fly or fall through other seemingly solid suspended forms, or even perch or sit on them. 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.”
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It takes a lot of time and patience to stick seeds to a thin wire, so working on a piece is a rather difficult process. The works have an architectural dimension, since they take into consideration the space where the animal is put and the way it is surrounded by materials. Also, there is the shape the work creates in its whole dimension. Most of her works are rectangular or circular.
The artist is growing and exhibiting in museum as Palais de Tokyo or Karsten Greve Gallery in Cologne, the Museum of Art and Design in New York and the Museum of Classic and Modern Art in Tanzania. Now it’s us telling you that you should keep an eye on Claire Morgan, since you’ll hear more from her.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
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