Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Touched
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.
Collection Area
Art
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
Categories
Crefft | Craft Celf Gymhwysol | Applied Art Derek Williams Trust Collection Astudiaeth ffurf | Figure study Traddodiad | Tradition Pagan | Pagan Arferion a defodau | Customs and ritual Catalogue level CADP content Artist Benywaidd | Woman Artist CADP random Artistiaid y 21ain ganrif | Active in the 21st CenturyComments are currently unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience.