Claire Curneen Irish, b. 1968

Selected biography 

Claire Curneen

  

Born  1968 Ireland

Education

1986–90  Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork  

                   Diploma in Art and Design (Ceramics)

1990–91  Postgraduate Diploma In Applied Arts  

                   University of Ulster, Belfast

1991–92  MA Ceramics, University of Wales  

                   Institute Cardiff

Exhibitions Include 

1996     Philip Eglin and Claire Curneen,       

Contemporary Applied Arts, London

1997     New Work, Claire Curneen,               Ruthin Craft Centre, (solo, tour, catalogue). 

             Oriel 31, Newtown, Powys

                   Model House, Llantrisant             Cleveland Craft Centre, Middlesbrough       mac Birmingham 

                   The City Gallery, Leicester 1998                   Ceramic Series/Claire Curneen,   Aberystwyth Arts Centre (catalogue).

2000     ‘New Masters, Old Masters’, Oxford Gallery, Oxford

             ‘Firing Imagination’,          British Council Exhibition, Sao Paulo, Brazil (catalogue)

              ‘Made at the Clay Studio’,  

The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA

2001     Figurative Ceramics, Crafts Council  shop at the V&A, London

2002     Claire Curneen and Heather Belcher,  CAA, London

             SOFA Chicago, USA

2003     ‘Flower Power’, Norfolk Museum  

& Archaeology Service and Sheffield Galleries 

& Museum Trust, (catalogue)

             ‘Telltale; narratives in contemporary craft’,          Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead (catalogue).

             ‘augenblicken’                   Kunstforum Kirchberg, Switzerland

2004     ‘Succour’ – Claire Curneen,  Ruthin Craft Centre, (solo, tour, catalogue)

            ‘Faith’ Nottingham Castle Museum (catalogue)

             ‘Collect’            at the V&A, represented  by CAA London

            SOFA Chicago, represented by CLAY, LA.

2005     Showcase at Manchester Art Gallery  

(DVD, catalogue and slide set)

              The International Art & Design Fair, New York, represented by Adrian Sassoon

2006     ‘Collect’           at the V&A, Ruthin Craft Centre

             ‘One Piece one Artist’       Galerie Marianne  Heller, Germany

            ‘Narratives’ Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea.

             ‘Collecting Contemporary Ceramics’                   Ruthin Craft Centre

             ‘The Human Condition’,    the Scottish  Gallery, Edinburgh

             ‘Figurative Ceramics’        Cervini Haas Gallery,  Scottsdale, USA

2007     ‘Secondary Relics’            Blackswan Gallery, Frome

             ‘menschenbild’ Galerie Kunstforum  

             Solothurn, Switzerland

2008     ‘Myths and Legends’,       Contemporary  Applied Arts, London

            ‘ Claire Curneen’ Ruthin Craft Centre,  

(solo, catalogue)

2009     British Ceramics.              Bavarian Crafts Council,  Germany

             ‘Otherworldly Messages’,                   Galerie Marianne  Heller, Germany

             ‘Collect’ Saatchi Galleries, CAA, London

2010     ‘Pretty young Things’       Lacoste Gallery,  Boston, USA

             ‘Claire Curneen and Olivia Chargue’,                  Le Don du Fel, France

             ‘Passage’ Craft in the Bay, Cardiff

             ‘Parings’ collaboration with textile designer  

             Alison Welsh, MMU Manchester

             Contemporary British Studio Ceramics,

              The Grainer Collection, Mint Museum, Charlotte, USA

2011     Beaux Arts,     Bath (solo)

             ‘Placement’ Ceramic Connections Wales/ 

             Scotland, Oriel Davies, Mid Wales

2011     ‘Lost Certainty’                  Claire Curneen  and Alice Kettle, CAA, London

             ‘3x2’, The Shed, Galway, Ireland

2012     ‘Never Never’                    Aberystwyth Arts Centre

             ‘Reflection’       Galerie Kunstforum Solothurn,  Switzerland

                   New World: Timeless Vision        IAC exhibition,  New Mexico Museum of Art, USA        ‘When I Woke’             Llantarnam Grange Arts.  Centre (curator, with catalogue)

              IAC members exhibition, New World:  Timeless Vision, Santa Fe, USA

2013     ‘New Blue and White’       Museum of Fine Arts,  Boston, USA

             Claire Curneen,                 La Ferme de la Chapelle,  Switzerland

2014     ‘To This I Put My Name’  Mission Gallery,  

Swansea and Ruthin Craft Centre  

(solo, tour, catalogue)

            New York Ceramics Fair, Ferrin Gallery

            ‘Collect’ Saatchi Galleries, Ruthin Craft Centre 

2015     ‘To This I Put My Name’ Kunstforum  

             Solothurn, Switzerland 

2015    ‘Fragile’ National Museum of Wales, Cardiff 

2017    ‘Tending the Fires’ Collect Open,  

             Saatchi Gallery, London

2017     ‘Cusp’ Ruthin Craft Centre

Residencies

2000  Crawford Arts Centre, St. Andrews, Scotland

2000  The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA

Awards and competitions 1995   Crafts Council Setting up Grant.

1999     Ceramics Monthly             Magazine USA –  Winner of the sculpture category

2001      Selected for the 52nd International  Competition for Contemporary  

Ceramic Art, Faenza, Italy

2001     Le Prix de I’AMN

2001      National Eisteddfod of Wales,  Gold Medal in Craft & Design

2003      Selected for World Ceramic Biennale 2003 Korea International Competition 

2003     Shortlisted for the Arts Foundation  Award for Ceramics

2004     Selected for 1st European Ceramics  Competition, Greece

2005     Selected for 3rd World Ceramic Biennale,  Korea International Competition

2005          Creative Wales Award, Arts Council of Wales 2008       Taiwan International Ceramics Biennale  Competition, Taipei Ceramic Museum

2012     Creative Wales Ambassador Award 

‘The Museum Object as a point of Reference’ 

2012/13

2017    ‘Tending The Fires’ Collect Open, Saatchi  

Gallery, London. Awarded the Outstanding 

Exhibit by the Crafts Council

2020 Baroque and Berserk, Walker Art Gallery.

2022 here after Bridge Projects Los Angeles 

2022 Anima Mundi Gallery

Public collections

Ulster Museum, Belfast

Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork

Crafts Council, London

Limerick City Art Gallery, Limerick

National Museums and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Shipley Art Gallery, Tyne & Wear Museums, Gateshead

Sara and David Lieberman Collection,  

Arizona State University, USA

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece

Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Cleveland Crafts Centre, Middlesbrough

Icheon World Ceramic Centre, Korea

National Museum of Scotland

Oldham Museum, Manchester

York Museum, England

Taipei Ceramics Museum, Taiwan

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Mint Museum, Charlotte, Carolina, USA

Kennedy Museum of Art, USA

  

Bird Figure

60 x 18cm, 2013

Periodicals include

Ceramic Monthly, International Competition, 1999

Ceramics Art and Perception, issue 38 1999

‘Searching for Answers’ by Sarah James Ceramic Review, issue 195, 2002  

‘A melancholy Beauty’ by Nicholas Lees 

Kerameiki Techni, issue 42, 2002 

‘The Role of Narrative in Claire Curneen’s Ceramics’  by Natasha Mayo

Keramik Magazin, issue 4, 2003 ‘Contemplation’  by Ian Wilson

New Ceramics, issue 5, 2005, profile on Claire 

Curneen by Amanda Fielding (German & English)

Ceramics Arts and Perception, article by Alex 

McErlain, issue 62, 2005/2006

Ceramics Arts and Perception, review of  

‘Pretty Young Things’ Lacoste Gallery,  

Massachusetts by Christine Temin 2011

Boston Globe, ‘New Blue and White’ at the MFA, 

March 2013

New Ceramics, 5/14, Shifthing States:  

Liminal Narratives in the work of Claire Curneen  by Catherine Roche, 2014

Craft Arts International, ‘To This I Put My Name’  by Laura Gray, 2014 CCQ issue 3, 2014 ‘An In-between Space’  by Catherine Roche Crafts Magazine, Claire Curneen ‘Body of  

Evidence’ Emma Crichton Miller, 2017

Ceramic Review July/Aug Claire Curneen  

‘Emotional Metaphors’ Andy Christian, 2017

Books

‘The Figure in Fired Clay’ by Betty Blandino, 

A&C Black Ltd, 2001

‘The Human Form in Clay’ by Jane Waller,  

Crowood Press Ltd, 2001

‘Ceramic Figures’ by Michael Flynn, 

A&C Black Ltd, 2002

500 Figures in Clay, Lark Books, USA, 2004

World Famous Ceramic Artist Studios,  (volume 1 Europe) by Bai Ming

‘Confrontational Ceramics’ by J. Schwartz, USA.

‘Masters in Porcelain’ Lark Books, USA

‘Breaking the Mould’ Black Dog Publishing, UK ‘Contemporary Ceramics – A Global Survey  

of Trends and Traditions’ Emmanuel Cooper, 

Thames and Hudson

‘Modern British Studio Ceramics and their studios’, David Whiting, Photography Jay Goldmark, 2009 ‘Ghost Trawler’ by Micheal Fanning, A poetry book. The publication is a collaboration between  artists and the poet. Published by Sommerville  Press, Ireland, 2010

‘Pairings’, monologues & dialogues’ MMU, 2010

‘Contemporary British Studio Ceramics’ Yale Unversity Press, New Haven and London with the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, North Carolina, USA Ceramics, tools and techniques for the contemporary maker, by Louisa Taylor, 2011 IAC members exhibition, New World: Timeless Vision,

Santa Fe, USA, 2012

Ceramics and The Human Figure by Edith Garcia 

Professional memberships include

Selected Makers slide index, Crafts Council, London

Contemporary Applied Arts, London

International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva

Television and Radio ‘Kaleidoscope’ BBC Radio 4, 1997,  review of Ruthin exhibition by Emmanuel Cooper ‘The Art’ BBC 2, short film of artist at work

Lecturing

Senior Lecturer, Centre for Ceramic Studies,  

Cardiff Metropolitan University