Lucy Gunning

Lucy Gunning (born 1 June 1964) is an English filmmaker, installation artist, sculptor, video artist and lecturer in fine art at the Chelsea College of Arts. Her works cross various media such as archival investigation, book-making, installation, performance, photography and video and her works are included in various public collections. Gunning was resident at various art institutions and won multiple awards for her works.

Early life and education Gunning was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. From 1984 to 1987, she studied at the Falmouth School of Art, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sculpture. Gunning was named the recipient of the 1987 Granada Foundation Prize, the Falmouth School of Art Sculpture Award and was part of the Whitworth New Contemporaries. Gunning was awarded £1,000 for winning the BT New Contemporaries Award in 1994, and the LAB Individual Artists Award two years later. Gunning's first film there called Quarry captured a working quarry where an explosion of stone was recorded on a four-minute loog and the second being a geologist showing the viewer their crystal and rock collection in a room. In 2004, she made the video installation Esc that was divided into three monitors. Gunning won the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Arts in the same year, She is a senior lecturer in fine art at the Chelsea College of Arts, and won the 2018–19 Lorne Trust Scholarship. Gunning's works are held in the public collections of Arts Council England, the Centre Pompidou, the Contemporary Art Society, the Hayward Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama and the Tate.

Andrew Cross in her entry in Grove Art Online wrote many of her videos reference video artists such as Bruce Nauman but "her focus on formal actions is overlaid by the complexities of metaphor and humour in situations that determine their own language and structure."