FION GUNN - ARTIST
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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." 
Emily de Wolfe Pettit, curator 


FION GUNN
About me
My practice centres around the desire to understand and analyse the extremity of human experience. I am fascinated by the possibilities of effecting transformation through exchange and encounter and keep going back to the fundamental question "what does the experience of living mean for us both as individuals and as a global society?
 
The history of humanity makes for a scary read: war, destruction, lots of nastiness.... and yet there is much to celebrate - our diverse and complex responses to the world we live in, our urge to make stuff, to pick ourselves up from destruction and start over. We have profound ties to memory and culture, we have affection one another and at best, can be selfless and kind... This is what keeps me going anyway.

I combine a wide range of materials, I like to experiment and find ways to create things differently, my new media work has grown out of a 2D/3D practice and now that practice is influenced by my VR artwork. Workaround solutions for technical problems, and there are many,  keep me awake at night -  but in a good way. It's an interesting, evolving process and every work I make feels like a fresh beginning at some level. This process reflects my interest in exploration in general, it's a way of bearing witness to the ceaseless global migration of both peoples and ideas down through history.

I am committed to meaningful exchange with everyone who visits/views or contributes to my work - I am interested in your response no matter how critical and I want to welcome you into my 'world'.

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RECENT
Gunn 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. 
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
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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