Recent acquisitions
'Sailing Past Life' & 'Age of Exploration: Salt' have been collected by Rosewood Hotel Guangzhou https://www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/guangzhou
'Sailing Past Life' & 'Age of Exploration: Salt' have been collected by Rosewood Hotel Guangzhou https://www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/guangzhou
'Sailing Past Life' # 3
installed at Rosewood Guangzhou
by Emily de Wolfe Pettit - Director, Peking Art Associates
installed at Rosewood Guangzhou
by Emily de Wolfe Pettit - Director, Peking Art Associates
ARTWORKS 2016 - 2019
FLEET (series)
FLEET (series)
'Fishing without my Father' 2018, mixed media, 76 x 34 x27cm
'Leader of the Flock, 2019, mixed media, 42 x 21 x 29cm
'AGE OF EXPLORATION' Series
Age of Exploration
In this body of work, artist Fion Gunn draws together several themes which have underpinned her artistic practice. She contemplates the movement of peoples across our planet, reflecting not just her ancestors’ and her own experience but encompassing the lived experience of all migrants contemporaneously and historically. The story of the silk roads, spice routes, flotillas of trade and ideas is painted, stitched, collaged and built into these artworks.
Gunn revisits her childhood fascination with tales of exploration, of adventure and all too often, exploitation - Marco Polo, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Dafoe’s Robinson Crusoe - intrigued by the ethical/moral decisions made by the heroes/ villains and the complex investigations of human morality made by Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim and the Heart of Darkness.
The circular ‘window’ motif which recurs in her work is both a porthole into seascapes and a representation of the cycle of life, a cycle of evolving eras. In each window a new world is discovered and an old world remembered..
In this body of work, artist Fion Gunn draws together several themes which have underpinned her artistic practice. She contemplates the movement of peoples across our planet, reflecting not just her ancestors’ and her own experience but encompassing the lived experience of all migrants contemporaneously and historically. The story of the silk roads, spice routes, flotillas of trade and ideas is painted, stitched, collaged and built into these artworks.
Gunn revisits her childhood fascination with tales of exploration, of adventure and all too often, exploitation - Marco Polo, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Dafoe’s Robinson Crusoe - intrigued by the ethical/moral decisions made by the heroes/ villains and the complex investigations of human morality made by Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim and the Heart of Darkness.
The circular ‘window’ motif which recurs in her work is both a porthole into seascapes and a representation of the cycle of life, a cycle of evolving eras. In each window a new world is discovered and an old world remembered..
ODYSSEY : THE JOURNEY HOME
In this series of work I am revisiting ideas that I've had since I was a child - a connection I felt with ancient Greek myths. These were stories which gave me nightmares but also rang true even in my childish experience. Now being much older I am reflecting on the Odyssey as a description of a hard journey home - what does that mean? the journey to our first perception of the self, our first wounds and hurts, maybe our first experience of joy and curiosity. I still feel the horror of Electra's predicament and have learnt the grief of Hecabe's story albeit in a less extreme way than so many. In the coming years I will add to this gallery as I address each drama in turn and face up to its relevance in my own life as an artist, a woman and an outsider.
'MEMORIES I HAVE DESIRED' SERIES
In 'Memories I have Desired' Gunn creates memories of idyllic childhood outings which never occurred, of course..... This is an ultimate wish fulfillment, visiting beautiful places with parents who are capable of getting you there without the dreadful fights, the car sickness, the bad food, the delayed departures and the arrival at destinations when the sun was already sinking along with the children's hearts!