October was a busy month working on a challenging sculpture project with 18 impressive artists in Wudi, Shandong. This post will look at my work for this project.
Lets talk about it, Niamh Cunningham , 50x 230 x300 cm , 150 x 190 x300cm. Steel, Concrete, Steel Alloy.
十月一共19位出色的艺术家参与了无棣大型艺术田园创作项目，
There are 10 international galleries showing at art:gwangju:17 at the Kim Dae Jung convention centre. I will look at two of these the Nancy Toomey Fine Art (San Francisco) and the Leyden Gallery (London).
Leyden Gallery Nancy Nancy Toomey Gallery
Next week I am going to Art Fair in Gwangju to meet the Leyden Gallery (London) and Nancy Toomey Gallery (California) .
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Paper : Supreme is currently showing at the Ordos Culture and Arts Centre, Inner Mongolia. The exhibition continues to September 28th 2017.
Having long been the medium that carried and spread ancient traditional culture , paper is also used in Chinese language as an adjective about life ‘Life like paper’ is used as a rather melancholic term to refer to the ups and downs of existence.
‘Compared to other media, art on paper tends to be more direct , it is both concise and immediate. Paper also permeates a national identity .’said curator Chang Feng (长风）. ‘On the other hand paper has this interesting randomness, a non-functionality and incompleteness which opens up a huge conversation’
Gratitude is also extended to Mr Xièbǎozhōng （谢宝忠） of KinYinBa who supported and hosted the exhibition. Thank you also to Mr He(贺） for facilitating the details of this project. This is an exhibition that explores all dimensions of paper and some unexpected facets of the material . For a quick overview of a portion of this collection I will present what the artists themselves say about their work.
A recent cultural trip to Wuxi for activities on China New Folk Art brought some of my monotypes on rice paper to the impressive venue of Wuxi Opera House. Eight gigantic roof wings extend over the facade giving the structure a butterfly appearance.
The event held various cultural activities such as visits to the famous LingShang Grand Buddha monastery, seminars and local music performances at the Wuxi Opera house where I was invited to participate with a pop up exhibition. It is always fun to encounter people with an exhibition when they are not expecting one.
本周五28日,我将去无锡参加“中华新民艺·时尚生活周”发布会。本次活动在江苏省无锡市举办，有多种艺术形式参展。我的参展作品采用了传统中国画颜料用宣纸绘制。更多信息敬请期待更新。
《难忘凤凰行》The Feng Huang walk 70x 70cm 2017 瑞莲 Niamh Cunningham
I will be showing a number of my monotypes as part of a special International cultural exchange event at Wuxi Opera house , opening on Friday 28th July . This event celebrates various forms of Chinese Folk culture of Wuxi Jiangsu. I will be showing my artworks made from Chinese colour on Chinese traditional Xuan Zhi (rice paper) . More information to follow.
As marker of amazing cross cultural collaborative projects over recent years I have just mailed these catalogues to the Asia Art Archive library in Hong Kong. I was co curator on these projects. They are already in the library archive of National College of Art and Design Dublin Ireland and Limerick LSAD. If you know of any good archive collections for exhibitions in China I would be really grateful if you let me know , you can contact me at niamh@niamhcunningham.com
It was a perfect weather day on Saturday April 22nd and began the day with a trip to 798 . I have been waiting for a Doig show here in Beijing for a while, it finally arrived. I couldn’t make the opening as my own show in Dong Yue was opening the following day. Two weeks later I finally make it to Faurschou Foundation. ‘Cabins and Canoes’ didn’t disappoint.