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Fion Gunn

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                                                                  Odyssey: Ride (excerpt showing the artwork created in VR using Tiltbrush) 
"I find ideas of the maze/labyrinth so fascination and why they have had such a long-lived appeal generally. In the end I think it may come down to two key elements: firstly, managing uncertainty and secondly, getting to grips with changing perspectives. At this juncture in history both of these elements are profoundly relevant. In creating Odyssey: Ride I wanted to engage with the exciting and positive aspects of change and flux. It is is a complex and cyclical rollercoaster which allows the visitor to change pathways and make stops to hear a story, read a poem or watch a short film, all embedded in the virtual world. Incorporating a soundtrack heightens the tension and suspense. In collaboration with composer Gráinne Mulvey I have just created a short film Roller Coaster using the Odyssey: Ride environment to give an idea of what the final interactive sensory experience will be when the artwork is built in Unity." Roller Coaster 2021 https://youtu.be/uzljx-yItPs
Fion Gunn is a Diaspora Irish Artist who lives and works in London. She is the first Irish artist to have a public sculpture commission in China, Zhangjiakou and was the first Artist in Residence at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool 2022-2023. She is online Artist in Residence at Museum of Childhood Ireland and was an associate at Tate Exchange Liverpool. Her five-month solo show Arrivals/Departures at Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool included the development of an AR app featuring her 3D work and an installation which featured artefacts from the Garstang Collection. She is lead artist with A-Maze Artists Collective whose 2023 exhibition at A.P.T. Gallery London was funded by Arts Council England. Gunn’s diverse, socially committed practice encompasses 2D, 3D, new media, installation, performance, curatorial and community projects and an AR pop up trail which is part of the Arrivals/Departures exhibition. She has an established history of successful public engagement, cross cultural & cross disciplinary collaboration and exhibits internationally. Details can be viewed on her website where a full CV is available. She is represented by RiseArt Gallery (UK) and Peking Art Associates (China).​

MOST RECENT PUBLICLY FUNDED PROJECTS:
- Exhibitions funded by Culture Ireland, supported by Embassy of Ireland Cairo Feb-March 2024 
- Boundless: Transitions Exhibition @ A.P.T. Gallery Deptford, London funded by Arts Council England, October 2023
- Arrivals/Departures Solo Exhibition for which the Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool received an award from Arts Council England 2022
- Boundless- Worlds in Flux, ongoing (digital project) funded by Arts Council England 2021
- Sheltering World, (digital project) funded by Arts Council England 2020-21
- Odyssey: Explorations (interactive exhibition & Digital Journey) Liverpool 2019 funded by Arts Council England, supported by Tate Exchange Liverpool
- Odyssey: The Return (exhibition & collateral events) Beijing 2019 funded by Culture Ireland, Asia Pacific Fund & Dublin City Council
- Excavations (exhibition & collateral events), Beijing 2018, funded by Culture Ireland & Dublin City Council
 
Gunn has won multiple awards for her work from Arts Council England, Arts Council Ireland, Culture Ireland, City Councils of London, Dublin, Cork & Belfast, Irish Literature Exchange, Walcot Foundation.  She founded Streatham Women’s Sewing Group CIC, was chair from 2009-15, working collaboratively as lead artist. The Group comprised women from the Somali & Horn of Africa Community in Streatham as well as Asian, North African, Refugee and low-income communities, its purpose was to reskill, promote inclusion and to promote well-being through arts & crafts.
 
She was granted access to the archives of the Museum Historyczyne Miasta Gdansk for an ongoing series of work ‘Displaced’ informed by the post WW2 images of Gdansk. She was guest editor for the 2015 Spring Edition of ArtZip Contemporary Art Magazine (bilingual English/Chinese) writing on the theme of the artist as curator. She works with a wide network of international artists and has led panel discussions with high profile practitioners such as Shirin Neshat at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center in Oct 2015.
Gunn has exhibited at numerous galleries in Europe and China - many of her projects pre COVID were based in Beijing and Shanghai where she has also curated major collaborative exhibitions of Irish & Chinese contemporary art in an annual project called IRISH WAVE (2009-2016).  

ARTIST’S RESIDENCIES:
Museum of Childhood Ireland current, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool 2022-23, Tate Exchange Liverpool, UK 2019, Baltic Art Center, Slupsk/Ustka Poland 2014, RedGate Gallery Residency Programme Beijing, China 2005
 
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2022 -2024
- invited artist Winter Menagerie by TondoCosmic Projects London E14, November-Decemebr 2023
,  selected artist, ‘The Path’ exhibition, Palazzo Pisani-Rivedin, Venice Biennale 3 Sept-3 Nov 2024
- invited artist at Beijing Contemporary Art Fair, May 2024
- invited artist 'Colour Code: Red' programme launch exhibition@ Shelter Art Space, Alexandria, Egypt Feb-March 2024
- 'Timelines' Exhibition @ Bayt Al Sinnari Art & Cultural Centre, Cairo, March 2024

- Invited artist, All About Art Exhibition at Kupfer Foundation, Hackney, London, April 2023
- Virtual artist in Residence at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool:  2022-23
- Arrivals/Departures Solo Show, Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool, July- December 2022
-Invited participant at the Beijing International Art Fair showing digital work – Roller Coaster
-Virtual Artist in Residence at Museum of Childhood Ireland
2021 
- Virtual artist in Residence at Museum of Childhood Ireland project: January 2021-22 
- Boundless - Worlds in Flux, Lead artist for an international collaborative project creating an interactive online Exhibition & Museum navigational system
- online films & exhibitions
2020
- Sheltering World (2020-21) – a collaborative multi-media project (online & at selected sites)
- Aurelia Arts Festival, (online), September 2020
-Local Midsummer Arts Trail, 21 June, Stanthorpe Triangle, London
- Micro Solo Show ‘One Day at a Time’, 5-18 May in my front garden, Streatham, London
- ‘Tip Off’, On Paper Supreme touring exhibition, curator: Chang Feng, Qingdao,Shenyang, China
2019
- Solo Show, Young Gunn curated by Emily de Wolfe Pettit, Candid Arts Trust, Angel, London
- Odyssey: Explorations-The Digital Journey showcased at Tate Liverpool and Open Eye Gallery
- Odyssey: Explorations, Interactive Exhibition at Tate Exchange Liverpool
- Odyssey: The Return curated by Huang Du, Dong Yue Art Museum, Beijing
2018  
- Odyssey: Expedition, 2-person show) at ASC Studios Space, London
- Artnight 2018: Odyssey: The Journey Home, curator/featured artist The Workshop, London
- On Paper Supreme touring exhibition curated by Chang Fang, Shenyang & Qingdao, China
- Excavations, group show, curator/featured artist, Enjoy Museum, 798, Beijing
-  Solo Show Age of Exploration, He Gallery, Beijing
- The Silk Roads, multimedia project with Maureen Kendal, Winn’s Gallery, London
2017  
- On Paper Supreme touring exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, Ordos Center for Art & Culture, Ordos, Inner Mongolia
- Views from Distant Shores 3 person show, curator/featured artist, South London Refugee Centre, London
- Gwangju, Art Fair, South Korea
2016  
- Female Artists Nominations, group exhibition, Da Yun Tang Art Museum, Beijing
- The Painted Thread, Yue Pavilion, 3-person show, Beijing
- Intimate Transgressions, international touring exhibition, (2015-16), lead curator/featured artist,
  Whitebox, New York City, InterArt Gallery, 798, Beijing, Hangzhou Library, Hangzhou, China and Chiang Kai Shek Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
- IRISH WAVE 2016, director/lead curator/featured artist, Birth of a Nation at Ning Gallery and Identity at EARC Space, both in 798, Beijing, Struggle, Sanwei Art Center, Shanghai
2015  
- Hohhot Biennial, Mongolia
- IRISH WAVE 2015: POETIC VISION, director/lead curator/featured artist,  Sanwei Art Center, (M50) Shanghai, InterArt Gallery 798 & Dong Yue Art Museum Beijing
- Memoire Traumatique 4 person show, curated by Phillipe Frydman, Au Medicis Gallery, Paris
                                                                                                                                
WEBSITES: https://www.fiongunn.org/   https://www.youtube/c/FionGunn   Instagram: @gunnfion


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