Rosie Gunn

Area of Expertise

Photography; Video; Digital Art

Research Profile

In 2009 Gunn was awarded a Teaching Fellowship by the School of Teaching and Learning at UCA to undertake a project in a local primary school. The camera became a tool of investigation for each child to take photographs that they edited to reveal one thing special to each of them in their school environment. The project involved approximately 90 children who contributed to an 'image wall'. Gunn is currently writing a research paper to evaluate the benefits of such a project.

In January 2007 Gunn made the three screen High Definition video work 'living room' for the National Review of Live Art at the Tramway in Glasgow and in 2008 it was screened at the Strange Screen Festival in Thessalonica, Greece. With '(re)connection' (James Hockey Gallery, 2003) Gunn began to explore images of childhood and family life.

Since 1996 she has worked with a combination of still and moving image in projected works such as 'before/beyond' and 'face.surface.interface' and 'to close the eyes of desire' (Leadworks, Bristol and Prema, Gloucestershire, 1997). The latter was also screened at the 'Experiments In Moving Image' retrospective in the Lumiere Cinema in London in 2004. In 1995 Gunn collaborated as video artist on a multimedia project 'Songlines', for the International Symposium of Electronic Art in Helsinki.

In 1993 Gunn co-founded Exposures, an association of women photographers where she made her own photographic work and led a number of workshops. As well as being discussed and published in Emmanuel Cooper's Routledge publication Fully Exposed, this work featured in a BBC2 Everyman documentary, many regional and national publications such as the Sunday Times Culture Supplement and Time Out as well as international publications from Norway to Brazil. In 1994 she took Exposures' photography and workshop programme to the Melkweg in Amsterdam.  In 2009 Exposures archive was accepted into the collection at the Women's Art Library at Goldsmiths University of London and various works from this period continue to be shown regularly.