Amy Cunningham: The Open Fund for Music Creators

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Process, transformation and mediation are central to Amy Cunningham’s practice. Her artworks are realised in a variety of media including film, video, sound, drawing and performance. A key medium is Amy Cunningham’s own classical singing voice. Her artworks are vehicles that travel back and forth between the obsolete and the futuristic, exposing and embracing gaps and glitches in forms, media or ideas. This process has led to a series of works in which a conflation of time periods and subject matter occurs, including a fictional computer game in a real 18th century garden, opera as a video installation and an Internet broadcast as a song cycle.

Amy Cunningham studied Fine Art at Wimbledon School of Art, London and The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Since 2000 she has exhibited performance, installation and screen-based work in various galleries and Festivals in Europe including: Norwich Gallery, Pitzhanger Manor Gallery London, Soundwaves Festival, Brighton, ZINGERpresents, Netherlands, Towner Gallery Eastbourne, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes, SC Gallery Zagreb, Croatia and Serpentine Gallery, London. Since 2004 she has been a key member of the artist collective SpRoUt. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Music and Visual Art, University of Brighton.