Created in 1996 to encourage and highlight the place of drawing in contemporary art, the Daniel and Florence Guerlain Foundation’s Drawing Prize has greatly contributed to the recognition of this medium in the art world.
Three artists were competing for the 12th edition of the Drawing Prize: Friedrich Kunath (German artist), Claire Morgan (Irish artist) and Jérôme Zonder (French artist).
Assembled in Paris on March 28, 2019, the jury has awarded the 2019 Drawing Prize to Claire Morgan, born in 1980 in Belfast who lives and works in Newscastle.
In an œuvre comprising works on paper, paintings and installations, Claire Morgan combines geometry and lyricism, two notions which correspond to her determination to reconcile a certain radicalness and the vitality she observes in nature. Some have compared her work to mythology, yet here it is more a question of observing the energy of animals and of succeeding in “capturing a fleeting moment.” With this ever-growing bestiary, Claire Morgan reflects on current ecological and political issues.
Her work belongs to the collections of the Museum of Old and New Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Fondation Frances, the Fondation Emerige, Cardiff University, and the Florence et Daniel Guerlain donation at the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou…
Claire Morgan is represented by the gallery Karsten Greve (Paris, Köln, St Moritz).
Creative Arts Update 