Biography Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney (Artist, Curator and Author)

Biography

Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney
(Artist, Curator and Author)

b: Liverpool (UK), 1967.
Current residence: Cheshire (UK).

Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney has a BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree, BA Art History Degree and Masters  Degree in Visual Arts at Liverpool John Moores University (England, UK).

Her creative practice is set in live art, new media and digital technology in prior initiatives she has explored body politics and liminality. Her research approach overall considers new and innovative modes of expression modified through other cross-disciplinary collaborations, such as previous projects with optical engineering, robotics and biotechnology.

Her art has combined site-specific installations, technological advances and live art. She has performed and exhibited in array of international events, such as the Liverpool Biennial, Venice Biennial, Performance Art Festival (USA), Hong Kong Biennial and Berlin Kunst Salon. Other projects have taken place in London, New York, Paris and Copenhagen.

She was Founder of various cultural initiatives, such as Whores of Babylon (UK) (2000 - 2003), Transvoyeur (International Arts Exchange Programme) (2003 - 2009),  Gesquoi (Cultural Research)  (2001 - 2004) and Aesthetic Innovation (Arts, Media, Science and Technology) (2008 - 2012).

She has been engaged in critical and creative research in Visual Language in Arts, Culture, Linguistics and Semiotics in a Technological Age (2012 - 2015) Socio-cultural, Political and Economic Implications of the Parthenon as Artefact, Object and Commodity in 21st Century (2016) and Abstraction and Performance (2017).

Her previous professional creative activities have been as a Painter, Sculptor, Researcher, Writer and Lecturer in Fine Art. She has been commissioned by many private and public bodies and international collectors of her art work.

She has proactively been involved in arts education and socio-cultural projects that have combined mutual charitable concerns for fundraisers and donation of arts, as well as art within the community and institutional collaborations (medicine, education, cultural and commercial).

Her current programme are exhibitions, open studio and workshops. In addition, she is developing series of abstract portraits to raise awareness of socio-cultural and political issues surrounding crimes against children and disability. These projects are respectively Lost Innocence - Children Past and Present and People Past and Present - Beyond the Temple Steps.

Prior cross-disciplinary arts, social and health initiatives with the NHS have included Royal Liverpool University Hospital where she curated and project managed with international artists a fund raiser, art auction and donation of art for permanent display in the Emergency Department and Diabetes Clinic. A review on her projects is underway where over 600 pieces of abstract art to be donated to several large hospitals across the Northwest of England and other medical organisations.

She has been described as by others in the professional arts:

"Avant garde"
"Provocative"
"Activist"
"... having a social conscience".

Some current interests she personally pursues with likeminded people are to issues of the vulnerable groups in society and to elevate public awareness on a range of subjects pertinent.  These relate to children's rights, disability, homelessness, employment, education, health,  justice and similar.

"Art is an expression, a response, to the world about.  We  are observers of it, but equally so we can not ignore our place within it either.  We are part of it and life itself integral therein.  It is a moral obligation to each other by respect and if we can to extend the hand to another always where needed.  If we fail at the most basic then we not merely fail another, but ourselves, and humanity as a whole".  Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, 2015.


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