Nicola Gunn
Nicola Gunn is an award-winning writer, director, performer, and designer, who combines text, choreography and visual art to make contemporary performance work in response to a self-generated impulse to tell a story or explore a form. She finds parallels between personal experiences and larger social realities, using subversive humour to explore the fragility of the human condition. She has received critical acclaim for her performances, has toured to New Zealand, North America, Europe and throughout Australia, and has collaborated with local and international artists. Most recently she created Mermermer with choreographer Jo Lloyd for Chunky Move; The Interpreters for Site is Set at Alliance Francaise performed in French, English, Auslan and Bunwurrong; Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster which continues to tour internationally; and published her first comic book with Michael Fikaris, Instruction Manual for Lonely Mountains. Nicola was artist-in-residence with Kaldor Public Art Projects under the mentorship of Marina Abramovic in 2015; has performed in the works of Ridiculusmus and Tamara Saulwick; dramaturged dance works by Luke George and Jo Lloyd; and has received commissions from Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Chunky Move, Field Theory and Performing Lines/Mobile States. Nicola is the recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts Creative Australia Fellowship, a Churchill Fellowship, and a 3-month Paris Cité Residency. She holds a Master of Arts (Art in Public Space) from RMIT.