Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Lives and works in Gateshead, UK
Represented worldwide by Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Paris, St Moritz
Education
First Class, BA (Hons) Fine Art (Sculpture), University of Northumbria, UK
Awards
2019 Fondation Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Prix de Dessin FR
2007 Wooda Arts Award, Cornwall, UK
2006 Premio Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Prize for Young Sculptors, Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan IT
2004 Roy Noakes Award, selected by Royal British Society of Sculptors UK,
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2019
As I Live and Breathe, Horniman Museum, London UK
2018
Losses, Deyrolle, Paris FR
Here is the End of All Things, Kunstverein Emsdetten DE
Recent Lapses in Judgement, Galerie Karsten Greve, Köln DE
Recurring Truths, Galerie Karsten Greve, St Moritz CH
2017
Perpetually at the Centre, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris FR (Cat.)
My God-Shaped Hole, Fondation Francès, Senlis FR
Stop Me Feeling, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville USA
2016
The Sound of Silence, Noordbrabants Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch NL (Cat.)
Claire Morgan and Fine Oceanic and Eskimo Art, Angela Berney Fine Arts, Basel CH
Plenty More Fish in the Sea, Musée Jean-Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, Angers FR (Cat.)
2015
The Gathering Dusk, Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris FR
Act of God // Höhere Gewalt, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Köln DE
2014
Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better, Osthaus Museum Hagen DE; travelling to Stadtmuseum Jena DE, and Fondazione Fernet Branca, St. Louis FR (Cat.)
Gone with the Wind, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne UK
The Slow Fire, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne DE (Cat.)
Trappings, Musée Joseph Denais, Beaufort-en-Vallée FR
2013
Interference, Nässjö Konsthall SE (Cat.)
Arresting, Växjö Konsthall SE (Cat.)
2012
Gone to Seed, MAC Belfast NI
Quietus, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris FR
No Match, Helmshore Mills Textile Museum, Lancashire UK
2011
Menagerie, Kunstverein Münsterland, Coesfeld DE
Terminal, Centre for Recent Drawing, London UK
Under the Sun, Galerie Karsten Greve, Köln DE
About Time, Hub: National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford UK
2010
Life. Blood, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris FR
2008
Periphery, James Hockey and Foyer Galleries, UCA, Surrey UK (Cat.)
Gone With The Wind, Great North Run Cultural Programme, The Laing Gallery, Newcastle UK
Chasing Rainbows, Selfridges, London UK
The Fall, The East Rooms, London UK
Fluid, ROLLO Contemporary Art (Gallery), London UK
2007
If You Go Down to the Woods Today, The Hospital Club, London UK
Head in the Clouds, Wooda Farm, Cornwall UK
2006
Crowdpleaser, Persistence Work Studios – Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield UK (Cat.).
2005
Hunter Gatherer, OMAC, Belfast NI
2004
“All that is solid…”, Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair, London UK
Emotional Response, Lagan Lookout Visitors Centre, Belfast NI
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2020
Natura Artis Magistra, Museum Schloss Moyland, DE
Recyclage/Surcyclage, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, FR
2019
OVNi Festival, Nice FR
Accrohage, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris FR
12e Prix de Dessin Contemporain – Daniel et Florence Guerlain Foundation, Artcurial Austria, Rudolfsplatz 3, 1010 Wien AT
Bêtes de scène, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue FR (Cat.)
ARTENREICH – Insekten in der Kunst, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg DE (Cat.)
Elements, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris FR
Biennale Ephémères, Chateau de Monbazillac, Monbazillac FR
Nature, Life, Human, MoCA Busan, Busan, KO
2018
Beyond Borders, Villa Empain BE (Cat.)
Audubon, Then and Now, Biggs Museum of American Art US
Summer Show, Galerie Karsten Greve, St Moritz CH
Futurs Antérieurs, Maison Guerlain, Paris FR (Cat.)
De fils ou de Fibres, Centre d´art Meymac FR
Accrochage, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris FR
Variations, Artloft Gallery, Bruxelles BE
L’art Par Nature, Galerie Robespierre, Grande-Synthe, FR
Impact, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris FR
Tension, Villa Bernasconi, Centre d’art, Lancy CH
2017
Kunstlerraume II, Galerie Karsten Greve, Köln DE
2016
Brave New World, National Biennale of Contemporary Sculpture, Trois Rivières, Québec CA
Cause & Effect, The National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford UK
Bzzzzz … Viel Fliegen, Museum schloss Homburg, Nümbrecht DE
2015
A Piece of Time, Avesta 2015, Verket Museum, Avesta Kommun SE
The Mystery of Birds, Linz, Austria AT
2014
Plastic Age: Fascination with and Horror of Plastics in Art and Science, ERES Stiftung, Munich DE
Inaugural Exhibition, Fondazione Ghisla, Locarno CH
The Tourists, Fellbrigg Hall, UK
2013
Accrochage, Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Moritz CH
Wunderland, Château de Rue CH
Beastly Hall, Hall Place, Bexley, Kent UK
Hors Les Murs, Fiac 2013, Jardin des Plantes, Paris FR
2012
Fantastic, Tripostal, Lille FR
Death, SHOWstudio Shop, London UK
Monanism, MONA – Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania AU (Cat.)
Making Waves: International Contemporary Art from the Saatchi Collection, Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill, London UK
Ästhetik der Natur, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg DE
100 Sculptures Animalières – Bugatti, Pompon, Giacometti…, LM-A30, Paris FR
The Bones of My Hand, The Last Tuesday Society, London UK (Cat.)
Agora – Miniartextil 2012, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy IT (Cat.)
2011
Nature – Contemporary Art from the collection of Altana Cultural Foundation, Osthaus Museum, Hagen DE
On Paper III, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris FR
Anthro[physis], Rivera & Rivera Gallery, West Hollywood, LA, US
Bêtes Off, La Conciergerie, Paris FR (Cat.)
Bestes, Bestiaux & Bestioles, Château d’Oiron, Oiron FR
Monanism, MONA – The Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania AU (Cat.)
Compulsive, Obsessive, Repetitive, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne UK (Cat.)
Suspense, EX3 Centro per l’arte contemporanea, Florence IT (Cat.)
Disconnected Everyday Tensions, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast NI
2010
Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York US (Cat.)
On & On, La Casa Encendida, curated by Flora Fairbairn and Olivier Varenne, Madrid ES (Cat.)
Outside In, SW1 Gallery, London UK
Heart of Glass, 20 Hoxton Square, London UK
Enragés, Fondation Francès, Senlis FR
Resilience, Espace d’art contemporain La Tôlerie, Clermont Ferrand FR
Tracing Reality, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zürich CH
2009
Consumer, Palais de Tokyo, curated COAL, Paris FR
Editions, Ormeau Bath Gallery, Belfast NI (Cat.)
Caught In A Moment, ROLLO Contemporary Art, London UK
Building with Colour, Gallery North, Newcastle upon Tyne UK (Cat.)
2008
Landscape, 18 @ 108, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London UK
EChO wanted, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris FR
Domestico, Ierimonti Gallery, Milan IT2007-2008
2007
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007, Jerwood Space, London; touring to Pittville Gallery, Cheltenham; Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol; BayArt, Cardiff; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle UK (Cat.)
Radiance 07, Glasgow’s International Festival of Light, Glasgow UK
Die Green, Live Pretty?, Pia Getty, curated by Adventure Ecology, London UK (Cat.)
Miniartextil 2007, Church of San Francesco, Arte & Arte, Como IT (Cat.)
Waste and the Natural World, The Gallery @ Adventure Ecology, London UK
2006
Your Gallery @ The Guardian, The Guardian Gallery in association with the Saatchi Gallery, London UK
Unnatural Selection, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, Shropshire UK
Inside Out at Cragside, Northumberland, works commissioned by National Trust UK (Cat.)
Premio Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Prize for Young Sculptors, Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan IT (Cat.)
2005
Out There, (CAN 05), Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich UK (Cat.)
Sculpture at Hebden Bridge, Hardcastle Crags, Yorkshire UK
Bolwick Arts 3, Bolwick Hall, Norfolk UK
2004
RBS Bursary 2004, RBS Gallery, 108 Centre, London UK (Cat.)
Exposure, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne UK
2003
12 x12, University Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne UK
Shrewsbury Sotheby’s Exhibition, Shrewsbury Art Gallery, Shropshire UK
Site-specific Projects
2017
Elephant in the Room, Princes Quay Shopping Centre, Hull UK
2016
Murmurations, 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London UK
2013
Undercurrent and Coming Up For Air, Oncologisch Centrum Spaarne Ziekenhuis NL
2012
Enchanted Parks, Saltwell Park, Gateshead UK
No Match, Helmshore Mills Textile Museum, Lancashire UK
2011
A New Moon, toured to Lumiere International Light Festival, Durham UK
2010
To Woo You, Town Hall Hotel, London UK
Mandala (Dead Space), a temporary work for Portobello Wall, London UK
2009
Canopy, The Big Chill Festival 2009, Herefordshire UK
Pressure Makes Diamonds, Assembly Square, Cardiff Bay UK
2008
Spooning, Sheffield Millennium Galleries, Sheffield UK
Re(a)d, HLC, Telford UK
2007
A New Moon, toured to Radiance 07, Glasgow’s International Festival of Light, Glasgow UK
Vital Signs, Cardiff University Optometry Dept UK
2006
Rising Tide, Temporary Address, Blyth, Northumberland UK (Cat.)
A New Moon, toured to Bristol Broadmeads UK
2005
A New Moon, Whitstable Harbour, SPARKS: commissioned by Canterbury Council, Whitstable UK
Shift, Tynemouth Station, Tyne and Wear, commissioned by Nexus UK
2004
Leave, Westonbirt Festival of the Garden 2004 UK
Parallel, Grainger Market, Art in the Market, Newcastle upon Tyne UK
Collections (selection)
Centre Georges Pompidou FR
MONA Museum of Old and New Art, AU
ALTANA Kulturstiftung DE
Florence et Daniel Guerlain FR
Emerige FR
Ghisla Art Foundation CH
Spaarne Ziekenhuis NL
Cardiff Bay Partnership UK
Silvie Fleming UK
Fondation Frances FR
Works are in numerous private collections worldwide