2019 Season IV
Fiona McGurk (UK)
![“59 Grasps, it’s ok, I’ll not let you go” (2016) cotton, text (157x 197 x 236”)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55673af7e4b0d4766b8a43a3/1568133512000-OUPU3CFAUSWEAZ1PTF3O/Fiona+McGurk+1_1.jpg)
![“No Title” (2016) inkjet print (4.0 x 157 x 197”)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55673af7e4b0d4766b8a43a3/1568133527114-GZSPSPBRCBLTUBG87E9B/Fiona+McGurk+2_1.jpg)
![“Thanks Again 1947” (2015) mixed media (47 x 31 x 24”)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55673af7e4b0d4766b8a43a3/1568133531976-7TZJWDHQJ3WJ67DOMC44/Fiona+McGurk+3_1.jpg)
![“Keys Installation View I” (2015) mixed media (24 x 16 x 4.0”)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55673af7e4b0d4766b8a43a3/1568133537018-172OMAYC3F4B8PRHRIRV/Fiona+McGurk+4_1.jpg)
![“Conversations series I” (2017) Inkjet print, Fuji-san dancing (1min) (71 x 110 x 83”)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55673af7e4b0d4766b8a43a3/1568133542088-H78DXW15S56NVKHZ491Q/Fiona+McGurk+5_1.jpg)
Artist Statement/ Biography
Fiona McGurk is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores notions of accumulation, connection, perception, context and space through a range of practical strategies; painting, photography, text, objects. Her scientific background heavily influences her methodology and making process; she works intuitively, reacting to work as it is being produced, ‘testing’ it in different environments and in relation to other works. Her work is site-sensitive, the placement of these works or images, one in relation to another is significant, suggesting equivalences between one fragment next to another, rather than one thing after another.--
After completing a BSc Chemistry, Fiona McGurk worked as a development chemist for 12 years before completing a BA Painting Edinburgh College of Art in 2012. Fiona has been the recipient of a number of awards; Creative Scotland Open Project Fund Award 2019, The Hope Scott Trust Visual Arts Award 2016, RSA: New Contemporaries 2013 and The Andrew Grant Bequest Scholarship, 2012 and 2010. She has exhibited in the UK and further afield; Japan, Greece, Singapore and Germany and has undertaken residencies nationally and internationally; 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan (2016), Pharmaceutical Research Centre, CMAC, University of Strathclyde (2014), Snehta|Athens, Greece (2012). Fiona is currently a studio holder and member of the board at Glasgow Sculpture Studios.
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