Victoria Gallery & Museum: ARRIVALS/DEPARTURES an exhibition by Fion Gunn
Venue: Victoria Gallery & Museum
Date(s): 30.7.22 - 23.12.22
Time(s): 10:00 - 17:00
Victoria Gallery & Museum: ARRIVALS/DEPARTURES an exhibition by Fion Gunn
30/07/2022 – 23/12/22
Open Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm
Irish diaspora artist Fion Gunn explores themes of global migration and displacement through paintings, sculpture and audio-visual installation. She is currently artist-in-residence at the Institute of Irish Studies and her exhibition is supported by Arts Council England.
A key theme in the artist’s work is displacement, whether it be temporary and enriching or chronic and distressing. Perhaps more than ever, the reality of living on a knife-edge of political and environmental catastrophe is being realised around the globe. Gunn incorporates the visual language of migration, conflict, and generational trauma into her work, begging us to ask “what does the experience of living mean for us both as individuals and as a global society?
Harry Liu, Editor in Chief of ArtZip Magazine, wrote of her work that “even when the images are sorrowful or difficult, they still give a vision of hope to the viewer”.
As a port city steeped in industrial history and by-water migration, Liverpool is the ideal home for this body of work, and has been written into the core of the exhibition’s goals and outreach. Ports acting as literal and metaphorical entrances and exits make appearances throughout Gunn’s portfolio.
From Cork to Shanghai, Dubai to Alexandria, Gunn explores what it means to travel, its impact on memory, its historical weight, and its power to heal or corrupt us. Globalism in terms of commercial trade but also human experiential exchange, is at the core of these works.
With a portfolio spanning painting, collage, sculpture, installation, performance and VR, Gunn’s practice is constantly evolving to match the ebbs and flows of her subject matter.
Encompassing panel discussions, public workshops, an immersive digital installation, an AR pop-up trail, and guided tours, Gunn’s vision is to bring her art and its satellite discussions to as many people – and in as meaningful a way – as possible.
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