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You will not stop here (detail)

2024; Bird skins, fox skin, polythene, nylon, lead, wax, mixed media; 407 x 1146 x 1175 cm
Photo: Simon Mills courtesy Golden Thread Gallery

Exhibition view: Joy in the Pain

Saarlandmuseum Moderne Galerie, 2021
Photo: Tom Gundelwein

Bare

2024; Bird skin (green woodpecker), painted stoneware; 9 x 18.6 x 41.4 cm
Photo: John McKenzie

God

2025, Oil on mulberry paper, 72.9 x 48.6 cm
Photo: John McKenzie

The inevitable heat death of the universe

2023; Wax, human hair, bird skins, mixed media; 350 x 380 x 380 cm
Photo: Nicolas Brasseur

Choke

2025, Human Hair, Wasp, 38.5 x 28 x 11.5 cm
Photo: John McKenzie

If You Go Down to the Woods Today

2014; Muntjac deer (taxidermy), butterflies, polythene, nylon, lead; 300 x 300 x 250cm
Photo: Claire Morgan Studio

You could be my mother

2023; Pastel, charcoal, on stained birch board; 173 x 153 x 4.5 cm
Photo: John McKenzie

Act of God

2015; Polythene, nylon, lead, aluminum; dimensions variable
Photo: Christopher Clem Franken
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Commissioned by Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne.

Bloom

2023; Wax, bluebottles, nylon thread, in vitrine; object: 13 x 57 x 27 cm, vitrine: 176.5 x 73 x 73 cm
Photo: John McKenzie

The Owl and the Pussycat

2014; Barn owl and domestic cat (taxidermy), torn pale blue polythene, nylon, lead; 300 x 150 x 150 cm

Hold me tightly lest I fall

2024; Bird skins, feathers, thistle seeds, Polythene, nylon, lead, wax, mixed media; 440 x 2000 x 2000 cm
Photo: Christian Redtenbacher

Reap

2025, Oil and charcoal on mulberry paper, 72.7 x 48.6 cm
Photo: John McKenzie

Mourning for real

2021; Chaffinch skin, polythene, nylon, in vitrine; 44.4 x 41.4 x 41.2 cm
Photo: John McKenzie

A tentative strategy for a renewal, or, wanting to tell you everything and then changing my mind

2021; Thistle seeds, nylon, lead, mixed media; 321 x 955 x 360 cm
Photo: Nicolas Brasseur

Or⁠

2021⁠; Charcoal on paper; 59.4 x 127.9 cm⁠
Photo: John McKenzie

Fluid (II)

2009; Crow (taxidermy), strawberries, fishing hooks, nylon; dimensions variable

Strung Out

2023; Wax, human hair, feathers, mixed media, in vitrine; object dimensions: 45 x 45 x 6 cm, vitrine dimensions 184 x 78 x 68 cm
Photo: John McKenzie

Bear

2023; Traces of taxidermy process, watercolour, pastel, pencil, on paper; 57 x 75.8 cm
Photo: John McKenzie

Exhibition view: Joy in the Pain

Saarlandmuseum Moderne Galerie, 2021
Photo: Tom Gundelwein

You will not stop here

2024; Textile; 43 x 86.5 cm
Photo: John McKenzie

I only dared to touch you once I knew that you were dead

2023; 32 page concertina fold book, drypoint and collagraph with hand colouring; 32 x 565.6 x 17.7cm; Edition of 3
Photo: Nicolas Brasseur

Show of Strength

2023; Pastel, charcoal, on stained birch board; 183 x 242 x 6 cm
Photo: John McKenzie

Fold (detail)

2023; Found textiles, fox skin, mixed media, in vitrine; object: 37 x 19 x 14 cm, vitrine: 186.5 x 71 x 71 cm
Photo: John McKenzie

States (II): Harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, harder

2019; Pastel, pencil, pigment, graphite on paper; 101.7 x 266.8cm
Photo: Colin Davison

Here is the End of All Things

2011; Thistle seeds, bluebottles, barn owl (taxidermy), nylon, lead, acrylic; dimensions variable
Photo: Tom Gundelwein
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Commissioned by Le Centre des Monuments Nationaux, for the exhibition Bestes, Bestiaux & Bestioles, Château d’orion, and Bêtes Off, La Conciergerie, Paris.

Murmurations

2016; Polythene, nylon, lead, acrylic; 500 x 1650 x 660 cm
Photo credit: 111 BPR Photography

Water on the Brain

2006; 5,300 origami paper boats, fishing line, steel; 160 x 600 x 900 cm
Photo: Claire Morgan Studio
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Commissioned by The National Trust for the exhibition Inside Out @ Cragside, Cragside Estate, Rothbury. Curated by Judith King. Funding from Arts Council North East, Northern Rock Foundation, ONE North East, and Northumberland Strategic Partnership.

It happens to be

2020; Blue Tit (taxidermy), thistle seeds, nylon, lead; 316 x 285 x 178 cm
Photo: Claire Morgan Studio

Softcore

2019; Pastel, pencil, pigment, graphite on paper; 152.5 x 119.5 cm
Photo: Colin Davison

A New Moon

2005; Polycarbonate lightbulb with festoon lighting (lightbulb: 430 x 250 x 250 cm, suspended from 30m tower crane
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Part of Sparks public art programme, curated by InSite Arts, commissioned by Canterbury City Council with funding from Arts Council England.

© Claire Morgan 2023MINIMAL

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