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Touched

CURNEEN, Claire

© Claire Curneen/Amgueddfa Cymru-Natioanl Museum Wales
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There’s a shocking moment in the film of Claire Curneen making Touched (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Mx8eeENmw). She takes a hammer to one of her older porcelain figures, creating fragments that she then ties to the branches sitting on top of the new figure. Touched refers to the ancient tradition of wish trees, known as ‘clootie trees’ in the Celtic world. Since pre-Christian times, pilgrims to sacred wells have tied offerings in the branches of a nearby tree in the hope that their prayer will be answered. Claire Curneen has recycled her own work to continue this tradition.


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Details

Collection

Derek Williams Trust / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 39574

Creation/Production

CURNEEN, Claire
Date: 2015

Acquisition

Gift: DWT, 22/5/2015
Given by The Derek Williams Trust

Measurements

Height (cm): 83.4
Width (cm): 34
Depth (cm): 25
Height (cm): 80
Width (cm): 40
Depth (cm): 40

Techniques

hand-built
forming
Applied Art
modelled
forming
Applied Art
lustre, gold
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art

Material

black stoneware
porcelain
medium density fibreboard
cotton

Location

In store
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Tags

  • Applied Art
  • Art And Design Movements
  • Communities And Society
  • Craft
  • Curneen, Claire
  • Customs And Ritual
  • Figure Study
  • Identity
  • Pagan
  • People
  • Religion And Belief
  • Tradition
  • Woman Artist

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