Still from 'Get Wisdom' Fion Gunn 2021
Fion Gunn is Virtual Artist in Residence at the Museum of Childhood Ireland
FORTHCOMING - SOLO SHOW 'ARRIVALS/DEPARTURES' at
VICTORIA GALLERY & MUSEUM - 30 JULY - 30 DECEMBER 2022 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE at INSTITUTE OF IRISH STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL 2022 EXHIBITION SUPPORTED BY INSTITUTE OF IRISH STUDIES |
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Excerpt from 'Plant More Trees' youtu.be/s9j4SRcO6gg
Created in Virtual Reality using Tiltbrush software "From trees, we make paper and from paper we make books and art and when we create art or literature, we are making endless new worlds for all those who can read, write and look at them. We should plant more trees, not just for our environment but so we can make more books. In these books we can learn about the world we live in as well as the inner worlds within ourselves." Fion Gunn 2020 |
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Youtube Channel www.youtube.com/c/FionGunn
Here are links to Fion Gunn's YouTube films in 2021, inspired by the work of writer and thinker Mary Wollstonecraft.
In 'My dreams are mine alone - A Tribute to Mary Wollstonecraft' https://youtu.be/INQZyCtsRrE Gunn describes the process of making a recent mixed media artwork (pictured top right) 'My dreams are all my own' Fion Gunn 2021 acrylic, canvass, collage,gold leaf, 100 x 80cm In 'We Breathe' youtu.be/fgitOnZYO_E Gunn has created a landscape in virtual reality, inspired by a Wollstonecraft quote. This is a metaphorical forest with a soundtrack woven around a song 'Hush no More' from 'The Faerie Queen ' an opera composed by Henry Purcell. (Still image pictured centre right) In 'Get Wisdom' youtu.be/XvPOD_PzH74 Gunn has created another virtual 'forest of transformation' in which the soundtrack combines the late Klaus Nomi's rendition of 'The Cold Song', also by Henry Purcell, with her young granddaughter's hummed version of the music. (Still image pictured below right) Please do subscribe, like and share if you enjoy them. Mary Wollstonecraft wrote many things and her life’s work was focused on the I portance of equality and inclusion. She wrote incisively about the French Revolution and her daughter Mary Shelley’s work ‘Frankenstein’ can be read as a metaphor for revolution and its consequences. I hope my artworks will encourage people to read Mary Wollstonecraft - she died in 1797 and yet her words ring so true today. SOLO SHOW VIRTUAL TOUR youtu.be/4am7-k3j6U0 Based on ‘YOUNG GUNN’ - FION GUNN SOLO EXHIBITION held at CANDID ARTS TRUST LONDON in November 2019 Curated by Emily de Wolfe Pettit Presented by writer and broadcaster Nicholas Tresilian "One slows down in the presence of art that has been craft ed slowly by an artist who is herself an acute perceptor of time." Emily de Wolfe Pettit, Curator |
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Fion Gunn is represented in the UK by Rise Art https://www.riseart.com/artist/110038/fion-gunn
