Fion Gunn 'Sailing Past Life' # 3 paper/acrylic/collage, 150x150cm 2016 Featured @ NING SPACE 798, Beijing, March 2016

 To read 'Beside the River' an essay on the recent work of Fion Gunn by Harry Liu, Editor in Chief, ArtZip magazine follow the link: 
​www.fiongunn.org/blog/beside-the-river-essay-by-harry-liu-editor-in-chief-artzip-magazine

​NEWS & FORTHCOMING EVENTS

'THE PAINTED  THREAD'
an exhibition  by Fion Gunn, Niamh Cunningham & Gulistan
@ Yue PAVILION - Mission Hills Art & Lifestyle, Beijing
北京市朝阳区金汇路9号W109（世界城商业街 悦馆·观澜湖艺术生活空间）
Beijing Chaoyang District W109 9 Jinhui Road
Phone Number：18910383152
Formal Opening Sunday 25 September from 2.30pm

Artists' Presentation and Panel Discussion led by curator Peng Feng will be held on Thursday 29 September @ 7.30pm

Fion’s work is clearly that of one accustomed to living and seeing far beyond the limitations of the rational mind.
She embodies the archetype of a true artist: one who awakens us all to see ideas with new eyes and feel emotions that were always there but which we could not articulate before with any clarity or power. We cannot transform anything in our lives, in our cities and in our countries without shifting our perspective first. Fion’s work is a key to that transformation.
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http://niamhcunningham.com/      
​http://www.gulistan-art.com/resume/

Fion Gunn Hiroshige Idyll 2014, mixed media, 50 x 35cm

'INTIMATE TRANSGRESSIONS'
shown in New York in September 2015 & Beijing in October 2015 and Hangzhou in April 2016
will open in Taipei on 20 October 2016.
Visit the website for details  http://www.intimatetransgressionsproject.com/



​Gunn, composer Liz Johnson and choreographic installation artist Sarah Rubidge have set up Vantage Points  - a multi disciplinary cooperative. They are currently collaborating on a project scheduled for 2017/18 and were invited to present a paper to the symposium, Music Composition as Interdisciplinary Practice, at the University of York from the 28th-29th June 2016.

Fion Gunn curated IRISH WAVE 2016: BIRTH OF A NATION in Beijing  & Shanghai in March 2016 with a team of co-curators:  Niamh Cunningham, Gail Ritchie, assistant curator Steve Chen & filmmaker Patrick Ketch

IRISH WAVE 2016 was supported by Culture Ireland and the Embassy of Ireland in China


Fion speaks about her own work in the Intimate Transgressions exhibition - short clip on Youtube: https://youtu.be/3JYWIKC3HkU

​Online Now - Film of the Panel Discussion hosted by the 
ELIZABETH A. SACKLER CENTER FOR FEMINIST ART

INTIMATE TRANSGRESSIONS: THE ACT OF DOING
Panel discussion moderated by Fion Gunn & Anita Glesta with panelists Shirin Neshat, Luisa Valenzuela and Eleanor Heartney 
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/video/videos/intimate-transgressions-the-act-of-doing


Documentary Film of the INTIMATE TRANSGRESSIONS project 
by filmmaker Jane Clegg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC63_JE9yvcItmgtinEoEYxg

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RECENT Exhibitions (Other than Intimate Transgressions in New York and Beijing)
1st Hohhot Biennial Contemporary Art Exhibition in Inner Mongolia December 2015
​Mémoire et Sublimation - curated by Phillipe Frydman at Au Médicis Art Space, Paris  
28 January-3 February 2015  
Visit the website for details http://memoireetsublimation.weebly.com/
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IRISH WAVE 2015 - MARCH 2015,  Beijing & Shanghai 
Visit the Website for details
http://www.bigsmallartists.com/irish-wave-2015-poetic-vision.html
RECENT FILMS on YouTube: 
SALUT MONDE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnekWkxMAk8
The Dress My Mother Wore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr4W6IhL3oc
Ustka Pier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28ArOqOQ85A
I am asleep - Don't wake me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFTwmvG02T0

INSTALLATIONS/ARTWORKS
'The Dress My Mother Wore' installation & workshops at Southbank Centre, Horniman Museum, Museum of Childhood and other London venues June 2014- August 2015

                                          Fion was awarded a grant from Arts Council England for 'The Dress My Mother Wore' she was lead artist on this collaborative art project with Streatham Women's Sewing Group CIC. The artwork was installed at public festivals and events throughout London, 25 women participated in the making of the artwork and over 1300 people participated in the associated public workshops.
http://sewinginstreatham.weebly.com/collaborative-arts-projects.html


WRITING
Fion was guest editor for ArtZip, the bilingual English/Chinese Contemporary Art quarterly magazine (March 2015 edition). In this edition she explored the themes of the artist as curator and the gender rebalancing of public contemporary art collections. ArtZip is on sale at Tate Modern, the Whitechapel Art Gallery and a range of venues in                                               798 Beijing  http://www.artzip.org/zip/

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