#claire curneen

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Artist I Like Series 

Claire Curneen 1968 - ???? an Irish Sculpture who’s sculptures are poignant reflections on the nature of humanity and our precarious place within it. Universal themes of loss, suffering and sacrifice underlie her intricate, porcelain figures, their translucent and fragile qualities offering potent metaphors through which to consider the human condition.

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Claire Curneen Irene tending the Wounds of St. Sebastian

Porcelain, gold lustre and blue cobalt glaze, 67 x 49 x 22 cm, 2006

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Saint Sebastian (2008) - Claire Curneen (Irish, 1968-)

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In the Tradition of Smiling Angels | Claire Curneen | 2007

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Claire Curneen

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Claire Curneen

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☆Claire Curneen☆

She is a clay artist that is 55 years old. What captured me about her work for the simplicity of the shapes she used to create the human form. I also found it interesting how "bulky" her art felt and I tried to do something similar. Her heads also show this simplicity as most of her art only has a nose, similar to a Maniquin.

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Form Develoupment Seminar (02/12/22)

Today I watched the form development seminar. Here's what I learned:

Colour can enhance a form

Surface treatments such as adding prints,patterns or textures can be both 3D and/or 2D

3D Printing is a great method of producing prototypes for developing form ideas

Installations allow a forms narrative to be portrayed with multiple pieces

There are many different methods of firing that result in different finished affects : raku,kilns,oxidation, alchemy,pit fire,etc.

Here are some artists that create forms that relate to my concept on the temporaryness of the Human Body and life that I could use as inspiration in the future :

One artist from this seminar struck me the most - Claire Curneen - as I had seen one of her sculptures that she made using her signature pinch method when I went to visit the Hunt Museum, Limerick.

Her sculpture of Daphne in the Hunt Museum:

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Form development- clay seminar

30/11/22

From watching this seminar I learned many useful things about how to work with clay. Clay is a time based activity and hardens the longer it’s being used. As it drys your can score it, cut it, stack it, carve it etc. Adding water to clay will cause it to melt which will turn the clay from solid back into liquid again. You can then reuse the clay. The clay only becomes ceramic once it has been fired.

Colour can inhance the form of the clay. The form can be abstract and can be developed in many different ways. 3D printing has been introduced to ceramic students and can be used to develop printed interesting clay forms. It can also print plastic prototypes or models they will later use to develop or as moulds to cast the clay in.

Forms come about by the development of your ideas, researching them and your engagement with it. Claire Curneen’s work studio can be seen in this seminar which helped us gather a insite into how she gathers information and develops her ideas. I recognise her work from a gallery visit to The Hunt Museum where I took these pictures :

The use of gold in her piece called Daphne which was made in 2015 was very eye catching to me.

Jack Dohertys work was also on display during my and @k00265221’s visit to the hunt museum.

I found this seminar very informative and I hope to apply this knowledge in the future when working with clay.

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Claire Curneen

Claire Curneen is a porcelain artist. She depicts martyrs from fables, myths, and religious texts. The figures have unusual proportions, with their sacrifice being acknowledged in their blood being golden.

I like her work because the figures are imperfect and her other work feels like it could serve as a stop-motion animation set. I would like to draw from her work when I make my own figures and sets.

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portfolio and statement

The starting point for my current project was the word 'Broken' which I am interpreting through the story of Medusa. I am developing a body of work that explores different aspects of her story such as misogyny, victim blaming and body dysmorphia. For my 'Medusa's Head' sculpture I used wax and candles to sculpt her head, which I impaled onto a metal spike. Embedded into the wax are wicks that I am going to light so that Medusa's head melts. I have taken inspation from a wax candle sculpture of a sleeping woman by Belgian fashion firm A.F Vandevorst which doubles as an unsettling candle which you would watch melt away as the runway went on. I also looked at Urs Fischer, a mixed media artist who created an installation at the 2011 Venice Biennale entirely made out of candles that were perceived as normal scuptures. They were lit on fire to show the transformation of time, metamorphosis, and creative destruction of his work. I like the idea that not everything you create is meant to last forever. In my sculpture Medusa looks into cracked mirror to reflect issues of internalised misogyny and dysmorphia as a result of being cursed by Athena. I feel that this story resonates with women today in the way they are victimised and the way internalised misogyny affects the relationships between women. Louise Bourgeois has influenced me in the sculptural aspect of her work as well as her themes of motherhood and self-acceptance.

With my sculpture 'Healing' I wanted to create a small but dangerous piece that represented the idea of self healing while everything around you is not fixable, and that after trauma, even when you try to focus on your own self-healing, the world around you is breaking apart at the seams. This was inspired by Medusa's trauma after being raped by Poseidon and the artist Claire Curneen who creates delicate porcelain sculptures which explore themes of death and rebirth. This links to my reimagining of Medusa's story in which she is driven to killing herself as opposed to her being killed by Perseus - a man. My aim is to create a video piece of both wax sculptures melting.

My interest in video art has developed in the past year after looking at female video artist's such as Janine Antoni's 'Loving Care' and Abramovich’s 'Rhythm 0' starting from my 'Human paintbrush' video performance, exploring narrative in 'Don't let the bedbugs bite' and my installation piece 'Join us' created for FMP. 'Join us' explored stereotypes and real life cults based around themes of virginity and sacrifice’s shown in movies, books and actual events.

Whilst video art is important to my practice, sculpting, painting and printmaking is at the core of all the videos I have made and I use video to expand on my traditional pieces of work to bring my concepts to life. my goal is to expand in learning more techniques for print making and painting and sculpture to help further my practice’s

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The way Claire Curneen makes trees is simple yet beautiful. She builds them by adding branches to a bulk of clay, which results in a natural and not too complex form. Looking at her work helped me figure out how to approach the making of my own tree. I knew I wanted it to be more detailed than in Claire Curneen's sculpture "Daphne" but not as detailed as in "Between my finger and my thumb".

Between my finger and my thumb, 2019-2022

Daphne, 2005

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Temporary Brief

This is based off of Claire Curneen’s piece “Splinter” . I would’ve liked to make it out of clay but I don’t have any on hand. Additionally, it would’ve been nice to try make a large scale piece to display on a person but I just don’t have the time for that. I decided to just plan it out digitally so that I would have an idea of how to sculpt the tree if I ever wanted to make it.

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Form development seminar

(11 December 22)

Clay, responsive to touch

Time limit

Time to understand

Pinch, roll, stretch

As dry-carve, score, crack

Liquid->solid->liquid

Cast, paint with

Only considered ceramics when fired

Paper project, textures, 2d to 3d

"Forest of pots"

Subcategories:

Art

Artist, ceramics, gallery, installation, sculpture, figurative, architectural, mixed media

Eva Farkasova, Deirdre Mcloughlin, Amy Mackie

Craft

Contemporary, tradition, function, potter, vessel, one off

Either Hehir, Jack Doherty, Karen Morgan

Design

Industry, one off, production, print, plaster, form development, clay

Derek Wilson, Anne McBride, Ingredients Murphy

Surface

Print, pattern, texture, relief, modelling, glaze

Frances Lambe, Sarah Flynn, Paul Scott

The figure

Human form, nature, human condition, sature

John Rainey, Tip Toland, Claire Curneen

Form

Abstract, 3d, nature, volume, scale

Eva Vogelsang, Nuala O'Donovan

Fire

Wood, gas, reduction, electric, oxidisation

Adam Buick, David Roberts

This seminar showed me the more experimental side of clay and sculpture and led me to looking into a wide variety of artists.