Open Studio with Claire Morgan FRSS

To mark her fortnight as the first artist in residence at Dora House with the Royal Society of Sculptors, Claire Morgan FRSS invites you to visit her during this open studio event on Friday 16 October, 11am - 2pm.

Join Claire for a chance to discover and discuss some of the research and ideas generated during the residency. In addition to the research in progress, Claire will present a small selection of recent works.

Image: I only dared to touch you once I knew that you were dead
32 page concertina fold book, drypoint and collagraph with hand colouring
32 x 565.6 x 17.7 cm

Photo Nicolas Brasseur, Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve Paris

Claire Morgan FRSS is an Irish multidisciplinary artist based in Gateshead, UK, whose practice incorporates sculpture, drawing, installation, writing, and printmaking, to engage deeply with notions of transience and the human condition.

Her international exhibition history spans 20 years and includes museum shows in Europe, Asia, Australia and the States. Solo shows include Hold me tightly lest I fall, State Gallery of Lower Austria (Krems AT, 2024), Joy in the Pain, Saarlandmuseum Moderne Galerie (Saarbrücken DE, 2021), As I Live and Breathe, The Horniman Museum (London GB, 2019), Stop Me Feeling, Frist Art Museum (Nashville US, 2017). 

Works have featured in group exhibitions at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, IT; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, US; MONA, Tasmania, AU; MoCA, Busan, KO; Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz AT; Towner, Eastbourne, UK; Château d’Oiron, Oiron, FR; La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES; Langen Foundation, DE.

Morgan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors since 2024. She was awarded a Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant in 2022 and won the Fondation Guerlain Drawing Prize in 2019. Works are in collections including Centre Georges Pompidou, Fondation Guerlain, and MONA.
 

Please note this event will take place in the basement workshop that is accessed via steep, narrow steps; if you have access requirements please contact us via awards@sculptors.org.uk