The Maker
Claire CurneenMaker in Focus
19 November - 08 January 2012
Claire Curneen is one ofBritain’s foremost figurative ceramicists, renowned for the haunting, emotive porcelain figures that she has been making for over 10 years. Fascinated by the human body, she explores themes of human alienation, femininity and the combination of bodily flesh and spiritual existence. Her making technique, a kind of porcelain patchwork, results in figures that are covered in handprints and shallow lines like contours or scars. These naked figures have extraordinary presence, awkward and vulnerable yet also self-contained and inscrutable.
