Meredith Gunderson is a London based artist and curator.  Gunderson began working independently in 2007 after 10 years institutional experience in the UK and US.

In 2012 Meredith took on a studio to develop her creative practice alongside selected curatorial projects.  In 2021 she began a BA (Hons) at Central Saint Martins.  Current work inquires into museum & artifact aesthetic and the legacy & tools of Enlightenment thinking alongside the unknowable voids and mysteries of the past.  

 

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Selected curating activities:

  • / As a consulting curator for live projects at London’s Garden Museum, curated a symposium on New York City’s High Line with founders of the project.  Symposium partners included the Mayor of London, the American Embassy in London and Ambassador and Mrs. Susman, the National Trust, English Heritage, the Landscape Institute and Futurecity.  Symposium included an ideas competition for a New London Landscape with subsequent exhibitions of the shortlist and a great deal of press attention.
  • / Created a public art strategy and undertook public consultation, selection process and commissioning of two landmark public artworks by artist Andrew Logan for an £80m mixed use regeneration scheme with a new library and leisure centre in Clapham Library on behalf of developer Cathedral Group.  
  • / Curated a two year programme of cultural events with exclusive access for a high net worth philanthropy club, part of HRH The Prince of Wales Charity, Arts & Business.  Included involvement in The HRH Prince of Wales Medal for Philanthropy.
  • / Secured £1m capital funding while at Chelsea College of Art and Design,  University of the Arts London for London’s largest open-air space for exhibitions situated in the heart of the college and beside Tate Britain.  Inaugurated by Anish Kapoor in 2008.  Achieved working within a small team, nobody raises £1m alone.
  • / Partnered with Kay Saatchi to curate and produce a pop-up subterranean exhibition of artwork by acclaimed courtier turned sculptor, Ian Garlant with support from the Royal Norwegian Embassy and Ambassador.
  • / Commissioned avant-garde dinner experience from designer, Martino Gamper in vacant listed Georgian townhouse in Brompton.
  • / Curated and produced a solo exhibition of paintings by Briony Anderson based on reworkings of Sir Henry Raeburn portraits.  The exhibition was a pop-up in a shop in London’s historic Piccadilly Arcade.
  • / Commissioned a site specific outdoor soundscape by British composer, Michael Parsons, with curator Mathieu Copeland.  Performances were set with in Canary Wharf and The City of London
  • / Ongoing theoretical new media public artwork, Rivers Baghdad, for the City of Baghdad with artist Theresa Caruana and the University of Nottingham’s computer science research unit, Mixed Reality Lab.
  • / Regularly lectures for Christies Education and IESA MA in History and Business of Art.