I am delighted to be exhibiting at The Palazzo Pisani Revedin, Venice, curated by @thisisamyjackson and powered by @shimartnetwork  This is the first time my work will be on show during the Venice Biennale and I will be there for the opening event on 3 September.

In this show SHIM repurposes the exquisite corpse technique to break down barriers to entry in the art world and promote inclusivity. By leveraging the concept of the exquisite corpse to create a collaborative artwork, artists are showcased from all over the world without the need for shipping physical artwork. QR codes are displayed alongside, allowing viewers to scan them and be redirected to the physical work for sale via the online platform Artsy. All of this promotes inclusivity, keeps the cost of showing great artwork to a minimum and reduces our environmental footprint. 

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I am honoured and delighted to be included in Chang Feng's latest exhibition exploring ideas of space in art. My digital installation 'Arrivals/Departures' and AR pop ups will be featured.  A description of the theme follows:
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"This exhibition is planned based on a chapter in his 2022 book "Space Art" written by the curator over a number of years. It is a sorting out and experimentation of art space. It is also an exploration of the multi-dimensional space of artistic vision. Usually we live in a three-dimensional space. The world that most people know is a two-dimensional plane space. They even only explore a virtual three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional plane. However, in human perception or memory, it has a certain dimension of generality. Or perceptual image, this dimension is also the artist’s experience of understanding the breadth, depth, density and speed of things.

This exhibition imagines how to use art to explore the concepts of time, space, sound, movement and light in a multi-dimensional space. The invited artists are all about how to expand the possibilities of various "boundaries" based on the plane. Breaking through the past that only represented virtual time through illusory space and position changes, we explore a new spatial art using various materials. Whether it is the division of painting materials, impasto or fluid accumulation; the cutting and distribution of parts and edges of "heterosexual" picture frames; the cutting, collage and combination of materials, etc., as well as the extensive use of industrial materials, focusing on The medium of light and optical phenomena present a new form of dazzling colors.

Multi-dimensional space not only emphasizes visual presentation, but also an exploration of psychological and emotional space. It is the experience of perception and feeling in daily life. The artists participating in the exhibition have all abandoned the two-dimensional plane and turned to the three-dimensional or multi-dimensional space. The traces of time produced between the multi-dimensional spaces will present various alternative thoughts of time and space in the hearts of the audience.

To create new art, you must explore new spaces. Therefore, breaking through the boundaries of traditional static art forms lies more in the structural continuation of visual space. It gives art a new and strong sense of movement, rhythm and interactive visual effects."

So great to have an artwork on show in Beijing after a break of nearly 5 years. 'Remembering the Scribe' will be featured in the Beijing Contemporary Art Expo in May at National Agricultural Exhibition Center, Shichahai, Chao Yang Qu, Beijing 100600. This is a venue I first visited during my residency with RedGate Gallery Residency programme back in 2005. Maybe next year I can be there in person!

Fion Gunn has been awarded funding by Culture Ireland for her projects in Egypt in March - these include participation in a launch exhibition at Shelter Art Space in Alexandria and an exhibition at Bayt Al-Sinnari Arts & Cultural Centre in downtown Cairo.
She will exhibit a range of artworks on paper as well as a digital installation - a site specific version of the Arrivals/Departures Installation which was created for solo exhibition at the Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool in 2022.

I'm planning an installation 'Fleet' for this exhibition in October 2023 and I will also show other work including Black Box, 2022, mixed media  88 x 44 x 70cm (When open)

​I found this box on the side of the road, unpainted and damaged. It had held things it was misshapen, it had the marks of life on it.
I knew immediately that I had to make an ‘infinity scape’ inside it, to expand its internal dimensions and explore a complex narrative.

The two coastlines are approximations of Dublin bay, the mouth of the Liffey and its port, and that of Liverpool, its docklands and the Mersey. 

My idea was to envisage sister coastlines and think about the connections running alongside the oppositional relationship between Britain and Ireland. Liverpool was the city to which so many Irish people came, fleeing poverty, famine, the shame of unwanted pregnancies and the lack of opportunities for women in general. However, many found the sense of displacement, the negative implications of being Irish in Britain ghettoised them emotionally and spiritually.

As I created these coasts, war broke out in Ukraine and I felt impelled to address the wider implications of displacement, the legacies of conflict the relationship between the invaded and the invaders. and so the artwork evolved to include the traces of destruction, the tools of war and forced migration.

The scale is simultaneously tiny and vast, intimate and universal. I want to tell these stories in a way that attracts the viewer to spend time looking and thinking while being respectful of peoples’ suffering and not gratuitously voyeuristic.

You may not be able to come to my exhibition in Liverpool 30 July - 23 December
however, if you’d like to see my 3D artworks in the flesh ‘virtually speaking’
download the app now and view them anywhere you like!
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The Arrivals/Departures app is now available FREE from:
AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/.../arrivals-departures/id1622404266
or
Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details

This is an excerpt from the immersive installation (from the floor projection) which is a key part of the exhibition at Victoria Gallery & Museum - 30 July - 23 Dec 2022. 

​This is the first event in Gunn’s year-long residency with Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies which launched on the 31st of March 2022 at Victoria Gallery & Museum.
In conversation with Dr Richard Benjamin, Head of the International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, Gunn will present her film ‘Child of our Time’ – a tribute to Eavan Boland and display some mixed media artworks which address the experience of women at times of war and its aftermath – the collateral lives of collateral victims.
Gunn and Benjamin, currently visiting professor at University of Liverpool, will explore their many touchpoints and their shared commitment to advocate for meaningful public engagement.
Describing the impact of Boland’s writing on her own work Fion Gunn remarked “Eavan Boland, was an inspirational and under-recognised Irish poet. I first read her poem 'Child of our Time' as a 15 year old, after the terrible bombing in Dublin in which three babies were killed. It has stayed with me ever since.”
On 9 June 2022 from 7pm-8.30pm at TR4, Building 502 Teaching Hub, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool L69 3GR (map attached)
Fion will explore different perspectives of war and conflict, as an artist, a curator, childhood experience and the legacy of family.
The audience is warmly invited to join the conversation.

​Free tickets available on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/349928915807/