瑞莲 (Niamh Cunningham), 爱尔兰

来自爱尔兰的瑞莲(Niamh Cunningham)是一位在北京居住和工作的视觉艺术家。在迪拜举办的两次个人展览确立了她在城市景观和水域景观绘画领域的地位。2014年8月,瑞莲在北京东岳美术馆举行了她在中国的首个个展。CCTV英文频道采访并于2015年3月播出了关于本次展览的纪录片,作为《我的中国故事》其中一集。2017年4月,北京电视台"北京客"节目对她最近的展览,举办于2017年4月的"平面上的空间,生命&自然"进行了专访。

除了景观和肖像画,瑞莲也有纺织装置展出。《发锁》于2015年9月在纽约的白盒子艺术中心展出。2014年11月瑞莲参加了湖南省张家界国际绘画驻地艺术家项目。2015年,她接到北京华信医院(清华大学第一附属医院)的委托,创作了三幅大型绘画作品,作品于8月展出。2017年10月,瑞莲受到山东无棣艺术田园创作展委托创作了两件大型雕塑作品,作品永久展出。2018年3月在深圳观澜版画基地参加了驻地艺术家项目。

 


瑞莲 Niamh Cunningham 

Niamh Cunningham (Ireland) is an artist working in Beijing.  Two solo exhibitions in Dubai established her reputation for cityscapes and waterways. Her first solo exhibition in China opened at Beijing’s Dong Yue Art Museum in August, 2014. Following its success, CCTV (China’s national TV English channel) broadcast a documentary on the series “My China” the following March. In April 2017 TV programme “Beijing Guest” on Beijing TV Youth Channel highlighted her exhibition “Infinite Entities : Life and Nature” in April 2017.  Apart from landscape and portraitures Niamh also exhibits textile installations. “The Hair Lock” was exhibited at the WhiteBox gallery in New York in September 2015. Awarded a residency with the Zhang Jiajie International residency program in Hunan in November 2014. Niamh then received a commission for three large paintings for the Orthopedic Department in Huaxin Hospital which were installed in August 2015. The artist was also commissioned to make two large sculptures as part of a land art residency in Wudi Shandong in October 2017. She was also awarded a residency in March 2018 at the Guanlan printmaking base in Shenzhen.  More recently Cunningham has been focusing on her mixed media “Sucrose Series”, developing techniques using crystalisation. In 2018 some of this work has been exhibited in Beijing, Jinan, QingDao, Ordos and Shenyang.
毛头骨,艺术家的头发 23 x23 x25 cm 瑞莲 Niamh Cunningham 2013

Samuel Beckett Bridge,  sucrose on printed cotton, mixed media,  2018 40 x50cm
塞缪尔·贝克特桥,印花棉布上的蔗糖,混合绘画法,, 2018 40 x50cm

When I Was Eleven, fabric, felt ,thread, 50 x 78cm Niamh Cunningham 2016
当我11岁的时候,面料,毛毡,线,50 x 78cm尼亚芙·坎宁安 瑞莲 Niamh Cunningham 2016