Overview
One of the foremost figurative ceramic artists working today, Claire Curneen creates sculptures that poignantly reflect on humanity. Universal themes of loss, suffering, sacrifice and rebirth underpin her works. Hand-built in white porcelain, sometimes with touches of blue or gold, their translucent and fragile qualities offer metaphors through which we can consider the human condition and experience.
Claire Curneen has an international reputation with an extensive exhibition profile and her work is held in many public collections around the world, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, National Museum Wales, Ulster Museum, National Museum of Scotland Edinburgh, Benaki Museum (Greece), Icheon World Ceramics Centre (Korea), and Crocker Museum (USA).
Claire has received awards from the Arts Council of Wales, a Creative Wales Award in 2005 and the Creative Wales Ambassador Award in 2012. The latter award research project, 'The Museum Object as a point of reference', a collaborate project between the Mission Gallery in Wales and the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin, Ireland.
Claire is a national advisor for the Arts Council of Wales and also contributes to the National Museum of Wales advisory panel, for the acquisition of art and craft for the national collection.