Niamh Cunningham is a Beijing based visual artist and has exhibited in over 70 exhibitions in China over the past decade. Cunningham has been actively engaged in cross cultural projects in China co curating IRISH WAVE exhibitions in Beijing and Shanghai for the Irish Festival in China (2012-2016) She was Beijing co-curator for the ‘Intimate Transgressions’ exhibition in October 2015 at Inter Art Gallery 798. In October 2017 she was commissioned to make two large sculptures as part of a land art residency in Wudi Shangdong. In November 2020 she began working with the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) developing ‘Microbe Art’ and together with IPE presented pilot workshops to Middle School 101. She considers her work on the “Memory Palace of Tree Stories” to be her most important todate. At the beginning of 2020 the artist began the sociological ecological art practice “The Memorv Palace of Tree Stories”. This is a gathering of stories from different people around the globe. Most recently the stories are in short video format. Cunningham was awarded public funding by her hometown in Ireland Carlow County Council and Creative Ireland Carlow Program for a specially designated website and collaboration with Carlow Garden Festival where she worked closely with the local tourist office gathering Tree Stories on video by visitors to the festival.