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Susan Gunn received international recognition when she won the Sovereign European Art Prize and was mentored by Callum Innes. She works from her studio at Unit 4, Islington Mill in Salford, Greater Manchester. Gunn studied Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts in East Anglia. On graduating with a first class honours degree, she established a professional practice in 2004 and has exhibited widely and held a number of solo and group exhibitions at venues including Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, the Norwich University of the Arts, Rollo Contemporary, The Fine Art Society, Bo.lee gallery, and the Royal Academy.

Her work is held in a number of public and private collections around the world including the China Academy of Art Museum Hangzhou, and the Yantai Art Museum. The Madison Museum of Fine Art, USA, the Sainsbury Collection at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (University of east Anglia), the East Anglian Art Collection (University of Suffolk), the Sovereign Art Foundation, the Priseman-Seabrook Collection, and the The Yale Centre For British Art in the USA. In 2018 Susan held a solo exhibition Ground: Evolution at HOME gallery, the show was curated by Art Director Bren O’Callaghan and her work was selected for the  Royal Academy’s 250 yr Anniversary Summer Show. Selected group exhibitions included Pulse Miami,  An Appetite for Risk and the China – Britain Biennial of Contemporary Art at the Yantai Art Museum.

In 2019 Gunn exhibited at The National Museum in Gdańsk in an exhibition; Made In Britain, 82 Painters of the 21st Century, curated by Robert Priseman, Anna McNay, Małgorzata Taraszkiewicz-Zwolicka and Małgorzata Ruszkowska-Macur. Selected group exhibitions include ‘In Between’ the Britain/China Contemporary Art Biennial, after TIME and Rogue Women. Gunn exhibited in ‘X’ Contemporary British Painting show in 2023 curated by Narbi Price, in conjunction with Contemporary British Painting. The extensive painting exhibition at Newcastle Contemporary Art marked the tenth anniversary of the group.

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