Age of Exploration - The Immigrants # 1,
Fion Gunn 2016
canvas/acrylic/collage, 100x100cm
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
www.fiongunn.org/blog/beside-the-river-essay-by-harry-liu-editor-in-chief-artzip-magazine
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Fion Gunn 'Sailing Past Life' # 3 paper/acrylic/collage, 150x150cm 2016
Featured @ NING SPACE 798, Beijing, March 2016
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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS 2017
NEW FILM ON YOUTUBE
VIEWS FROM DISTANT SHORES
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIL8ekVtdHU&t=10s
3 minute film of the recent exhibition features writer/environmentalist Martin Wright, Dom Sergi, community engagement officer at the Horniman Museum and Harriet Neuberger from the Abraham's Tent Project Team commenting on the project.
Artists : Fion Gunn, Michael Lisle-Taylor and Sarah Rubidge with Gareth Mitchell
The exhibition was curated by Fion Gunn
The film was produced and directed by Jane Clegg.
VIEWS FROM DISTANT SHORES
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIL8ekVtdHU&t=10s
3 minute film of the recent exhibition features writer/environmentalist Martin Wright, Dom Sergi, community engagement officer at the Horniman Museum and Harriet Neuberger from the Abraham's Tent Project Team commenting on the project.
Artists : Fion Gunn, Michael Lisle-Taylor and Sarah Rubidge with Gareth Mitchell
The exhibition was curated by Fion Gunn
The film was produced and directed by Jane Clegg.
QINGDAO SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM
invitation to create a sculpture for the new Qingdao Sculpture Park
Gunn will unveil 'Qingdao Sailing Forth' in September 2017
'INTIMATE TRANSGRESSIONS'
INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION
SHANGHAI
@ SIHANG WAREHOUSE - September 2017
Intimate Transgressions is a CAPA(Center for Asian Pacific Affairs) Project
Curated by Fion Gunn, local co-curator to be announced shortly
'LIKE AN ICEBERG'
in collaboration with Niamh Cunningham, Gulistan, Jin Mei
BEIJING October 2017
New short film about the stories which inspired the artist's work: https://vimeo.com/204673200 or
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obLnTOaGXR4
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obLnTOaGXR4
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
VIEWS FROM DISTANT SHORES
A multi media art exhibition by Fion Gunn, Michael Lisle-Taylor and Sarah Rubidge with Gareth Mitchell
in collaboration with the South London Refugee Association at Woodlawns, Streatham
VIEWS FROM DISTANT SHORES featured artists Fion Gunn, Michael Lisle-Taylor and Sarah Rubidge with Gareth Mitchell who are collaborating with SLRA on a proposal for an ambitious art project next year. The project will involve other institutional partners and promoting social inclusion, engagement with new audiences and empowerment for hard to reach communities will be key.
For further information about the work of SLRA contact celia@slr-a.org.uk
A New Model of Chinese and Western Culture
Female Artists Nomination Exhibition
@ Da Yuntang art Museum in Wangjing
organised by Beijing Women Artists Association, sponsored by Yi Qi Network curated by Huang Qian, December 2016
'THE PAINTED THREAD'
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
25 September - 4 November 2016
Artists' Presentation & Panel Discussion led by curators Peng Feng, Catherine Cheng and Ying Cui was held on Thursday 29 September @ 7.30pm
RECENT PERFORMANCE:
'We're All in the Same Boat'
with Liz Johnson & Sarah Rubidge
11 December 2.30-3.30pm at the Millenium Bridge, London
https://www.facebook.com/allinthesameboat/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcCBzJoLScE
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
http://niamhcunningham.com/
http://www.gulistan-art.com/resume/
http://www.gulistan-art.com/resume/
OTHER PROJECTS
Gunn will participate in Qingdao Sculpture Symposium which will be held from June-September this year. Her proposed sculpture 'Sailing Forth from Qingdao' will be installed in Qingdao Jimo Sculpture park.
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 presented a paper on cross media collaboration 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
IRISH WAVE 2016 was supported by Culture Ireland and the Embassy of Ireland in China
Gunn speaks about her own work in the Intimate Transgressions exhibition - short clip on Youtube: https://youtu.be/3JYWIKC3HkU
