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“One slows down in the presence of art that has been crafted slowly by an artist who is herself an acute perceptor of time."
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FION GUNN
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About me
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RECENT
Fion was awarded a grant by Arts Council England for Odyssey: Explorations, a project with Tate Exchange Liverpool where she is now an Associate. She was also awarded a grant from Dublin City Council, Asia Pacific Fund (under the aegis of Embassy of Ireland Beijing) and Culture Ireland, for Odyssey: The Return - an exhibition at Dong Yue Art Museum, Beijing. This included presentations at The Bookworm, Beijing Foreign Studies University and Embassy of Ireland. T The project celebrated the Beijing-Dublin twinning programme with the five participating artists responding to the themes in James Joyce's Ulysses. Celebrated Chinese curator Huang Du wrote the curatorial essay for the exhibition and a film of his speech at Dong Yue Art Museum can be watched at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zAUwCSrcE0 |
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2019
YOUNG GUNN - Solo Show, curated by Emily de Wolfe Pettit at Candid Arts Trust, Angel, London 5 - 17 November 2019 ODYSSEY: EXPLORATION - The Digital Journey at Tate Liverpool & Open Eye Gallery Liverpool August 2019 ODYSSEY: EXPLORATIONS, Interactive Exhibition & Residency at Tate Exchange Liverpool July 2019 ODYSSEY: THE RETURN, curated by Huang Du at Dong Yue Art Museum, Beijing April 2019 2018 ON PAPER SUPREME curated by Cheng Feng @ Korea Gwangju Museum of art in Songzhuang November - December 2018 DEPTFORD X - ODYSSEY: The Journey Home with Odyssey Group September 2018 WALDRON Health Centre, London SE14 ODYSSEY: EXPEDITION - ASC STUDIOS SPACE, London SW2 4TT September 2018 ARTNIGHT 2018 : ODYSSEY: The Journey Home with Odyssey Group July 2018 The Workshop, London www.artnight.london/holding/ www.odysseygroupart.weebly.com 'THE SILK ROUTE THOUGH THE AGES PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE' 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 April - June 2018 Curated by Jia Jingjing, this exhibition ran concurrently with 'EXCAVATIONS' in an adjacent space in He Gallery 'EXCAVATIONS' He Gallery, Beijing April - June 2018 curated by Fion Gunn and Jia Jingjing, Featured 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 April 2018 invited artist in an exhibition which explored 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 throughout 2017-18 Center for Contemporary Art, Qingdao, Guangzhou, ‘Ordos Center for Art & Culture, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, Shenyang, China |
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