IRENE GUNSTON
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IRENE GUNSTON                                                                    CV: 2019
2014-             Part time lecturer in Sculpture -Carmarthen College of Art

2014-             Return to Wales to continue Practice 

2008-14        Foundry manager–Royal College of Art

1983-2014   Free-Lance Sculptor/Founder based in London

1979-82:       Canterbury College of Art,BA (Hons.) Sculpture.

1978-9:         Cardiff College of Art, Foundation

 
Born:          Aberkenfig, South Wales, 1960
           
EXHIBITING:

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2005:     Antonia Jannone Gallery. 
              Milan.

 2002:     Denbeigh Museum Library,  Day to Day.
               N.Wales.

2001:     Galleria Ceribelli.
               Bergamo, ITALY.

1999:     Henry Thomas Gallery.
               Carmarthen, S.WALES.

1997:     Castle Gate Gallery.
               Cockermouth, CUMBERLAND.

1996:     Standpoint Gallery.
               Shoreditch, LONDON.

1994:     Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Female Humans.
               Swansea, S.WALES.

1993:     Oriel Gallery Theatr Clwyd,
               N.WALES.

             Museum of Fine Arts,
             MALTA.

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:

2018:      Iron Maidens II Made in Wales
                Theatre Clwyd, Mold, N.Wales

2017:     Iron Maidens II Made In Wales
               Various sites within Port Talbot, S.Wales

2015:     Works in Bronze and Other Media by Contemporary Medallists
              Jean-Luc Baroni Gallery, Masons Yard, London

              The Womanhouse Project
             StudioRCA. Nine Elms, Battersea, London 

2012:     New Medallists,
               Victoria & Albert Museum, Gilbert Bayes Room, London

2004:     MARTIN TINNEY GALLERY, Summer Show, 
               Cardiff

2003:     Royal Academy Summer Exhibition,
               London

2002:     Lite Medaile, Plakety a Drobny Plastiky,
               Slovak Museum, Uherske Hradiste, Czech Rep.

2001:     Bow Arts Annual Exhibition
               Selected by Mo Mowlem M.P. London

2000:     Size Immaterial: Hand-held sculpture of the 1990s 
              British Museum, London

               Means + Making,
               Royal Society of British Sculptors, London

1998:     Numismatic Society of America,
               New York

               Open Drawing,
               Cheltenham, Hull, Berlin

1997      Open Drawing Exhibition,
               CGCHE, Cheltenham

               Mänttä Bronze Casting Symposium Exhibition.
               Finland

1996      FIDEM Art Medals Exhibition,
               Kunsthalle, Neuchâtel,  Switzerland

               The Last Dance
               Theatr Clwyd, North Wales

               Open Drawing Exhibition,
               CGCHE, Cheltenham

1994:     FIDEM Art Medals Exhibition,
               Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

1993:     The Welsh,
               Margam Sculpture Park, Wales

1992:     In The Round: Contemporary Art Medals of the World
               British Museum, London

               Sculptors at the A&A Foundry,
               Tokyo Art Expo, Tokyo

1991:     Four Contemporary Artists,
               Bridport Art Centre, Dorset

               British Art Month,
               Roy Miles Gallery, London

1990:     Sculpture and Ceramics 1990,
               Hannah Peschar Gallery, Surrey

1989:     Contemporary British Sculpture, 
               Chapman Gallery, London


BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Writing on work, or images of work reproduced:

2005:     Antonia Jannone Gallery solo show catalogue
               (text by Fabrizio Dentice)

2002:     Day to Day solo show Pamphlet
               (text by Merlin James)

2001:     Galleria Ceribelli solo show catalogue
                (text by David Cohen)

2000:     Artworks on…People FBA publications;
               school handbook includes section on Irene Gunston sculpture-Crab in Hand

1999:     The Medal magazine (Spring issue);
               cover image; article on Irene Gunston’s medal ‘Undisturbed Night’.

              Size Immaterial: Hand-held Sculpture of the 1990s.
              British Museum publication.

1997:     Mitali Medaljen magazine(Helsinki),
               No2. (3 illus. statement by Irene Gunston)

1996:     AB Sculpture Foundry Catalogue.

               International Women’s Art Diary, WASL,
               London.

               Standpoint Gallery solo show Catalogue,
               (text by Merlin James).

1995:     Docklands News
               review of exhibition at Dash  Gallery.

1994:     Modern Painters magazine, Winter 1994,
               review of Irene Gunston at Glynn Vivian
               (by Elizabeth James)    

1993:     The Welsh, Margam Sculpture Park catalogue

              Women’s Art magazine 
              review of Irene Gunston exhibition at Oriel Gallery Clwyd  
              (In the Flesh by Johanna Dahn)

               Now I See... Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, group show catalogue
               (Introduction by Merlin James)

              L'Orrizzont, November 10th & Malta Times, November 18th 
              reviews of Irene Gunston  at the Museum of Fine Arts, Malta

1992:     Tokyo Art Expo. Catalogue
               (text by Andrew Lambeth)

               In The Round, British Museum FIDEM exhibition catalogue.

              1/50,000; Sixteen Short Poems by Elizabeth James, Vennel Press,London
               (images by Irene Gunston)

1991:     Women Artists Diary, WASL, London.

               The Medal magazine, Autumn 1991
               (article on Irene Gunston's Seasons’ medals)

Writing by IG:   
2018:       Medaille Spring Issue
                 A tale of British Art School Foundries (Transcript of Lecture delivered in FIDEM Ghent 2016)
2015:      Medaille Spring issue
               Review of FIDEM Sofia Bulgaria Exhibition (2014)

              Works in Bronze and Other Media by Contemporary Medallists: Art medals in the 20th Century
              Group Show Catalogue introduction

2007:     The Medal magazine (Spring issue); Undercover Surrealism. George Bataille and Documents
               book review of catalogue for Hayward Gallery exhibition
 
2006;     The Medal magazine (Spring issue); Bronze, the power of life  and death 
                book review of: Henry Moore Institute  Exhibition  Catalogue

2005:     The Medal magazine (Spring issue):  Depth of Field: the Place of relief in the time of Donatello 
               book review of: Henry Moore Institute exhibition catalogue 2004

2000:     The Medal magazine (Spring issue); David Smith: Medals For Dishonour 
               book Review of: catalogue (New York 1999).

1998:     The Medal magazine (Spring issue);  Finnish Small Sculpture and medals symposium
               article by Irene Gunston 

RESIDENCIES:  

2007:     Dartmoor Iron Casting workshops

2006:     West Wales School of Art Iron Casting Symposium

2002:     Uherske Hradiste Bronze Casting Symposium. Czech Rep.

1997:     Finnish Small bronze Sculpture and medal symposium

 
AWARDS:       

2000:     FRSH prize for best Patination, FIDEM Wiemar            

Sculpted work in public space:

2006:     Replacement Hippocamp for Mount Street Gardens

1990:     Station of the Cross, Wintershall Estate, Surrey

MEDAL COMMISSIONS:

2014:             Provosts Medal, Royal College of Art

2007-           The Wigmore Hall, Medal

2006:             Railway medal

2002:            British Academy, Centenary medal

1999:            British Art Medal Society

1986:            British Art Medal Society.

VISITING LECTURER:

Kent Institute of Art and Design

Camarthen College of Art

University of York

City Art Gallery, Birmingham

 Kingston University Sculpture Dept.

WORKSHOPS TAUGHT (selected):

2012      HEAT - Art Medal workshop for cross discipline students RCA

2010:     Platform 36 Metal casting workshop for RCA Design Product students

2007:     City of London Festival School Bronze Casting Project (Sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Founders)  

2006:     Patinating and Metalworking workshop for BAMS delegates, West Dean

2005:     African Art Ceramic Artist led project, St Pauls Way School
& 2006   (part of Bow Studios outreach programme)

1994:     Communication - Building Bridges sculpture project: at Standpoint Studios (Whitechapel Gallery Education Programme)

1988:     Children's Sculpture Workshop, Coram Fields, London

1986:     Noah's Ark sculpture project ILEA Psychiatric Day Centre

1985:     Sculpture class Toynbee Hall Community Centre, London

1982:     Architects Drawing Summer School, Canterbury College of Art

OTHER EXPERIENCE:

2013/14 &    
2006/7      Mentor for ‘New Medallist’ (recipient of BAMS Scholarship)                                 

2012:        Co-organised the ‘METAFLUX Platform’ Conference at RCA with Dr Trish Lyons. Two days of Fine Art casting related talks,                                   discussions and events - a gathering of practitioners, historians, educators, artist, founders and students. (Included a pop-up 
                  exhibition, Private view of the Royal Academy BRONZE Show, and receptions) for 100 international Delegates.

2006-07   Mold-making Technician at Central St Matins School of Art

2006-08   Mold-making Technician at City and Guild School of Art

2005-06   Sculpture maintenance/restoration: metal, stone, plaster, plastic(as part of Rupert Harris metal Conservation team)

2007:       Organiser of conference At Canterbury for the British Art Medal Society. Accommodation, meals, lectures, practical                                             workshop, Museum visits, exhibition displays and receptions. for 60 Delegates

1979-       Metal working, Wax working, Investing Mold-making, for commercial Fine Art Foundries On and off site

1984-89:  Relief and Letterpress printer at I.M.IMPRIMIT private press, one of the main printers on the Ornamented Types project.

COLLECTIONS:             

British Museum.

Museum of Fine Arts, Malta.

National Museum of Scotland

Rijksmuseum, Leiden.

Gillet för Medaljkonst I Finland.

Various Private Collections.

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SCULPTOR . FOUNDER . PROJECT MANAGER

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