Claire Morgan – You Will Not Stop Here
The Golden Thread presents new work by internationally acclaimed artist Claire Morgan which has been specially commissioned with the support of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Commissioning Grant 2024.
Claire Morgan raises fundamental questions about the role of humans and their relationship to nature. Complex three-dimensional forms made from artificial and natural materials are a frequently recurring motif and the artist uses taxidermy, waste materials, sculptural wax figures and human hair, to create uniquely beautiful work, that inspires new understanding to the possibilities of the art form.
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Fold (detail), 2023
Claire Morgan
Found textiles, fox skin, mixed media, in vitrine 186.5 x 71 x 71 cm
Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Paris, St. Moritz © Claire Morgan. Photo: John McKenzie
The work explores real and imagined relationships between individuals and between species, at a time when devastating environmental and humanitarian emergencies are manipulated for political goals. It comes from the need to foster kinship, but this can be no fairy tale. Whether we think about grief, loss, personal or collective trauma, or the climate catastrophe, we can never just start from scratch. Glossing over problems doesn’t work, because the truth always bubbles to the surface. We must find ways to exist and find beauty despite our circumstances, not by denying their existence.