To read 'Beside the River' a 2016 essay on the 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
Films - Age of Exploration 2018 - film of solo show in Beijing www.youtube.com/watch?v=byrPxGQz7h4&t=8s
- Excavations Exhibition - www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJWtKMelca8
- Writing in Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYox7h1YnHQ
- Age of Exploration: Spice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn-cqOih4ng&t=18s
EXPERIMENTS WITH TILTBRUSH
Films - Age of Exploration 2018 - film of solo show in Beijing www.youtube.com/watch?v=byrPxGQz7h4&t=8s
- Excavations Exhibition - www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJWtKMelca8
- Writing in Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYox7h1YnHQ
- Age of Exploration: Spice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn-cqOih4ng&t=18s
EXPERIMENTS WITH TILTBRUSH
EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS 2017 -19
NEWS - 2019
Fion has just been confirmed as an associate of Tate Exchange Liverpool and has been awarded a grant by Arts Council England for Odyssey: Explorations, a project which encompasses the creation of a multimedia artwork to animate the Royal Albert Dock and workshops to be carried out during her residency at Tate Exchange Liverpool with Tate, Museum of Liverpool and other local partners
RECENT/CURRENT
Fion was awarded a grant from Dublin City Council, Asia Pacific Fund (via Embassy of Ireland Beijing) and Culture Ireland. for Odyssey: The Return a exhibition at Dong Yue Art Museum and presentations at The Bookworm, Beijing Foreign Studies University and Embassy of Ireland. The project celebrated the Beijing-Dublin twinning programme and the artists responded to James Joyce's Ulysses in their work. Huang Du the celebrated Chinese curator wrote the curatorial essay for the exhibition and a film of his speech at Dong Yue will be posted on Youtube shortly.
2018
ON PAPER SUPREME curated by Cheng Feng @ Korea Gwangju Museum of art in Songzhuang 16 November -3 December 2018
DEPTFORD X - ODYSSEY: The Journey Home with Odyssey Group 21-29 September 2018
WALDRON Health Centre, London SE14
ODYSSEY: EXPEDITION - ASC STUDIOS SPACE, London SW2 4TT 6-14 September 2018
ARTNIGHT 2018 : ODYSSEY: The Journey Home with Odyssey Group 7 July 2018
The Workshop, London www.artnight.london/holding/ www.odysseygroupart.weebly.com
'THE SILK ROUTE THOUGH THE AGES PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE' 12 - 22 July 2018
Exhibition and Workshops Art, photography, textile design & culture, Silk Route exhibition, Winns Gallery, Walthamstow, London
'AGE OF EXPLORATION' Solo Show, He Gallery - VIP Space, Beijing 20 April - 3 June 2018
Curated by Jia Jingjing, this exhibition ran concurrently with 'EXCAVATIONS' (see below) in adjacent space in He Gallery
'EXCAVATIONS' He Gallery, Beijing 20 April - 3 June 2018
curated by Fion Gunn and Jia Jingjing,
Artists: Niamh Cunningham, Fion Gunn, Gulistan, Lee Seungha, Monika Lin, Audrey Mullins
'EXCAVATIONS' exhibition was sponsored by Dublin City Council to celebrate the twinning programme of Dublin & Beijing
www.facebook.com/Excavations-exhibition-sponsored-by-Dublin-City-Council-730141280523074/
'MORTGAGED TIME' RedGate Gallery, Beijing 21-29 April 2018
invited artist in an exhibition which explores the complex love relationship between two famous European poets -
Ingeborg Bachmann, daughter of a Nazi party member, and Paul Celan, whose Jewish parents
were murdered in the Holocaust.
'ON PAPER SUPREME' curated by Chang Feng, International Touring exhibition 2017-18
Center for Contemporary Art, Qingdao, Guangzhou, ‘Ordos Center for Art & Culture, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, Shenyang, China
Fion has just been confirmed as an associate of Tate Exchange Liverpool and has been awarded a grant by Arts Council England for Odyssey: Explorations, a project which encompasses the creation of a multimedia artwork to animate the Royal Albert Dock and workshops to be carried out during her residency at Tate Exchange Liverpool with Tate, Museum of Liverpool and other local partners
RECENT/CURRENT
Fion was awarded a grant from Dublin City Council, Asia Pacific Fund (via Embassy of Ireland Beijing) and Culture Ireland. for Odyssey: The Return a exhibition at Dong Yue Art Museum and presentations at The Bookworm, Beijing Foreign Studies University and Embassy of Ireland. The project celebrated the Beijing-Dublin twinning programme and the artists responded to James Joyce's Ulysses in their work. Huang Du the celebrated Chinese curator wrote the curatorial essay for the exhibition and a film of his speech at Dong Yue will be posted on Youtube shortly.
2018
ON PAPER SUPREME curated by Cheng Feng @ Korea Gwangju Museum of art in Songzhuang 16 November -3 December 2018
DEPTFORD X - ODYSSEY: The Journey Home with Odyssey Group 21-29 September 2018
WALDRON Health Centre, London SE14
ODYSSEY: EXPEDITION - ASC STUDIOS SPACE, London SW2 4TT 6-14 September 2018
ARTNIGHT 2018 : ODYSSEY: The Journey Home with Odyssey Group 7 July 2018
The Workshop, London www.artnight.london/holding/ www.odysseygroupart.weebly.com
'THE SILK ROUTE THOUGH THE AGES PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE' 12 - 22 July 2018
Exhibition and Workshops Art, photography, textile design & culture, Silk Route exhibition, Winns Gallery, Walthamstow, London
'AGE OF EXPLORATION' Solo Show, He Gallery - VIP Space, Beijing 20 April - 3 June 2018
Curated by Jia Jingjing, this exhibition ran concurrently with 'EXCAVATIONS' (see below) in adjacent space in He Gallery
'EXCAVATIONS' He Gallery, Beijing 20 April - 3 June 2018
curated by Fion Gunn and Jia Jingjing,
Artists: Niamh Cunningham, Fion Gunn, Gulistan, Lee Seungha, Monika Lin, Audrey Mullins
'EXCAVATIONS' exhibition was sponsored by Dublin City Council to celebrate the twinning programme of Dublin & Beijing
www.facebook.com/Excavations-exhibition-sponsored-by-Dublin-City-Council-730141280523074/
'MORTGAGED TIME' RedGate Gallery, Beijing 21-29 April 2018
invited artist in an exhibition which explores the complex love relationship between two famous European poets -
Ingeborg Bachmann, daughter of a Nazi party member, and Paul Celan, whose Jewish parents
were murdered in the Holocaust.
'ON PAPER SUPREME' curated by Chang Feng, International Touring exhibition 2017-18
Center for Contemporary Art, Qingdao, Guangzhou, ‘Ordos Center for Art & Culture, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, Shenyang, China
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.
A.G.Horne,writer
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.
A.G.Horne,writer