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Claire Curneen: A Conversation with Trees
Thursday, 10 October, 2024
Hello and welcome back to the Fen Ditton Gallery podcast, with gallery manager Hannah Munby This episode features a conversation with ceramicist Claire Curneen, who is currently exhibiting at the gallery as part of our exhibition ‘A Conversation with Trees’. The exhibition is open until Sunday 27th October. Find out more and view the show online at fendittongallery.com/a-conversation-with-trees Claire Curneen has been working in ceramics for over twenty years. She graduated from Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, with a Diploma in Art and Design (Ceramics) in 1991. Her hand-built ceramic sculptures are poignant reflections on the nature of humanity and our precarious place within it. For many years, Claire’s ideas and projects have explored and re-interpreted narratives drawn from the world of myths and history. The two works that are currently on show at Fen Ditton Gallery, ‘Splinter’ (2018) and ‘Daphne’ (2024), draw on the classical myth of Apollo and Daphne as told in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 1, ll. 452–567. Examples of Claire’s work can be found in over 20 major museum collections including: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; V & A Museum, London; National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh; and the Icheon World Ceramics Centre, Korea.
