Ireland

Visual Arts

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 projectsin China co curating IRlSH WAVE exhibitions in Beijing and Shanghai for the lrish 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 artresidency in Wudi Shangdong. In November 2020 she began working with the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) developing ‘Microbe Art’ and together with lPE presented pilot workshops to Middle School 101. She considers her work on the “Memory Palaceof Tree Stories” to be her most important todate. At the beginning of 2020 the artist began the sociological ecological art practice“The Memory Palace of Tree Stories”. This is a gathering ofstories from different people around the globe. Most recently thestories are in short video format. Cunningham was awarded publicfunding by her hometown in lreland Carlow County Council andCreative lreland Carlow Program for a specially designated websiteand collaboration with Carlow Garden Festival where she workedclosely with the local tourist ofhce gathering Tree Stories on video by visitors to the festival.