'COLLATERAL LIVES' 1st event of Fion Gunn's Residency at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool

 Date:    Wednesday 15 June 2022 from 7pm-8.30pm
Venue:   TR4, Building 502 Teaching Hub, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool L69 3GR (map below)

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.

Fion 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.

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.”
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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.