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20/4/2004

Lucy Gunning

Matt's Gallery, London

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An installation

This will be Lucy Gunning's third solo exhibition at Matt's Gallery. She has worked with video footage to observe aspects of human behaviour, focussing specifically on changes of state achieved through esoteric practice, intoxication, and protest. The videos are situated within an installation comprising of a large wall-painting that is both a back-drop and an abstract sign, and temporary structures fabricated from newspaper and cardboard that create other spaces within the gallery.

One video documents a group of people doing a particular Qi Gong exercise which involves shaking over an extended period of time. (Qi Gong is a Chinese form of exercise designed to stimulate the flow of energy through the body). Another video focuses on businessmen re-orientating themselves to the outside world to find their way home after an evening's drinking. The third film depicts tree-houses built as a protest in a landscape that is under threat. These are temporary structures suspended above the land with rope walkways between them for the purpose of avoiding the bailiffs; whilst, as mechanisms of escape, they suggest fantasies of adventure and unrestrained existence.

Lucy Gunning would like to thank the following:
Martin Ashford (Financial Times), Judith Dean, John Frankland, Chaja Lang (Bloomberg), Martyn Ridgewell, John Tindall, Magdalena Wisniowska and Delfina Studio Trust.

This exhibition has been generously supported by Arts Council England, The Henry Moore Foundation and Bloomberg.

For further information and visual material
please contact Rosalind Horne, Gallery Administrator

Born Newcastle upon Tyne, Lucy Gunning lives and works in London. Education: M.F.A Goldsmiths College, 1994; B.F.A Falmouth School of Art, Cornwall, 1987. Solo exhibitions: Quarry, Spike Island, Bristol, 2003; The Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon School of Art, London; Passing/Performance, Matt's Gallery & GLOSS, Vauxhall, London, 2002; Stage I (Show the Way Mischief), Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster; Intermediate II, GreeneNaftali, New York; Intermediate II, Art Now, Tate Britain, London, 2001; Galeria Presenca, Porto, Portugal, 2000; [BACKSPACE], Matt's Gallery London, 1999; GreeneNaftali Gallery, New York; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff; Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, 1998; Matt's Gallery, London; University of Buffalo Art Gallery, New York, 1997; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; GreeneNaftali Gallery, New York; City Racing, London; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1996. Selected Group Exhibitions: With Hidden Noise, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, (forthcoming), 2004; Believe, Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster; City Racing - A Partial History, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2001; British Art Show 5, touring: Edinburgh, Southampton, Cardiff, Birmingham, 2000-1; Belvedere, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds; 2000; Thinking Aloud, Kettles Yard Cambridge; Camden Arts Centre, London, 1999; Voiceover, touring: Arnolfini, Bristol; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, 1998; False Impressions, British School at Rome, Rome, 1997; X/Y, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; 1995; Tell Everyone, GreeneNaftali, New York, 1995; BT New Contemporaries, touring: London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Bradford, Aberystwyth; 1994. Awards and Residencies include: Spike Island Moving Image Residency, Bristol, 2003; DAAD Munster; The British School at Rome, Rome Scholarship, 2001; BT New Contemporaries Award, 1994. Collections: Arts Council Collection, Contemporary Art Society, Hayward Gallery, Tate Gallery, London; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Toyama; Centre George Pompidou, Paris; Private Collections, London and U.S.A.

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