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Staff profile / Claire Curneen

Senior Lecturer
Contact: ccurneen@uwic.ac.uk

Since graduating with MA Ceramics in 1992, Claire Curneen has pursued within her artworks, themes of selfless sacrifice, transcendence, purpose and platonic love weave through these pieces like a complex leitmotif, shifting and changing according to subject and form (Hughes, Philip, Director, Ruthin Craft Centre).

She is now established as one of Europe's major artists working with the figure through the medium of ceramics, and selected for key exhibitions world wide: including the 52nd International Competition for Ceramic Art at Faenza, Italy and the 2001 Prix deí AMN. Her work also features extensively in recent books and journals and pieces are held in eminent international collections, including the V&A.

Whilst she is one of the new generation of artists, her contribution to the field has already been recognised through her election to the International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva.

Claire Curneen is a member of the Centre for Ceramics Research (http://www.wirad.ac.uk/research-themes/centre_for_ceramics_research/), part of the Fine Art & Ceramics theme within WIRAD.

Research Awards

2005 Creative Wales Award, Arts Council of Wales

Conference Contributions:

2006 Poetics/ Arts Council of Wales (advisor for keynote speakers)

Exhibitions/Events:

2007 Secondary Relics, solo exhibition, Blackswan Gallery, Frome
2007 Collect, Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales
2006 SOFA, Chicago, USA
2006 One Piece One Artist, Caleriw Marianne Heller, Germany
2006 Collecting Contemporary Ceramics, Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales
2006 Figurative Ceramics, Cervini Hass Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

Membership of Professional Bodies:

International Academy of Ceramics Geneva
Contemporary Applied Arts London

Gaynor Kavanagh At Cardiff School of Art & Design, we believe in being at the top of our game and that includes being able to deliver programmes that really make a difference. We give our students every opportunity to explore all kinds of creative and professional possibilities, in an environment that recognises the importance of taking risks and seizing the initiative. We are interested in ideas and how these are examined through practice.