Ursula Morley-Price

Matter in motion

23 mars – 2 mai 2024

Ursula Morley-Price. Exposition en 2024 à la Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste

For her fifth solo show at Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Franco-British ceramic artist Ursula Morley-Price shows once again the power of her practice. Her new works specially created for the exhibition embody her highly personal way of working with variations on a same principle of organic structures that seem to unfold into space.
Through fifteen works, most of which recently created for the show, we are faced with the very poetic lines, harmonious volumes and perfect balance between solidity and fragility, presence and weightlessness that have always been the strength of the artist’s sculptures and brought her international recognition

Ursula Morley Price. Exhibition catalog
Ursula Morley Price in Connaissance des Arts

Shown in the most prestigious European, British and American collections (Cité de la Céramique in Sèvres, Hamburg Museum, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA…), Ursula Morley-Price has nothing left to prove. Yet tirelessly, she continues to experiment. She refuses to endlessly repeat the recipe behind her success. Stoneware offers a thousand possibilities, which the artist is not done exploring. For her fifth solo show at the Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, which required her over a year’s worth of work, she was determined to present a unique corpus.

The exhibition is comprised of about fifteen pieces, whichUrsula Morley-Price considère comme autant « de prolongements et de développements » d’une œuvre au long cours, initiée il y a – déjà – plus de cinquante ans. Qu’elles flirtent avec la figuration ou soient totalement abstraites n’est finalement pas la question. Seule compte l’émotion face à la poésie de la matière, figée pour l’éternité dans un mouvement immobile.

Guillaume Morel
Journaliste, critique d’art
Extract from Excerpt from the exhibition catalogue.