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The Beauty Of Rotting Fruit And A Taxidermied Crow

Claire Morgan originally from Belfast got a first class degree in Sculpture from Ulster and Northumbria University.

Claire has made her career as a visual artist, with exhibits across the UK as well as internationally. She developed an interest in the organic, in natural processes, and in the bodily connotations of natural materials.

It is this fascnination that makes the foundation for her sculptural taxidermy installations.

The following installation, fluid for Northumbria University in an exhibition called Building With Colour uses hundreds of strawberries and a taxidermied crow.

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Morgan’s sculptural material is ordinary, familiar and everyday, but is transfigured through the rigor of formal composition into becoming resonant with a mysterious melancholic power that allows it to be unfamiliar to us again.”
(Darren Ambrose, Lecturer in Art Theory, Birmingham City University, 2007)

http://www.claire-morgan.co.uk/

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poor crow, interesting action refrigeration

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can’t wait to see what this piece turns into over the next few weeks. great idea.

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Thats’ is going to be messey!!

Comment by selling art online on September 17, 2009 at 11:50 pm
lovely, love how the fruit is suspended in mid air, giving a sense of movement, looks like a photo, very nice.

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