O'Flynn, Gaynor

Award Winning Multi Media Artist : working in music, film, performance & installation. Director of beinghuman & the beinghuman warehouse.

Gaynor is an independent artist who works across media in music, film, performance & installation art. Gaynor started her career on the revolutionary music show The Tube. The greatest & the good passed through the Tube's legendary doors including Miles Davis, Annie Lennox, Sting & Bjork. Her directorial debut was the first film ever to be shown on MTV Europe. She directed for Granada with Factory legend Anthony H. Wilson, on US show Entertainment Tonite, concerts from Wembley to G Mex & promos for U2... after a stint directing Lonely Planet she ended up in the Himalayas, worked for the Dalai Lama & found her heart, mind and voice... In 2000 she set up her own independent company beinghuman & filmed the first beinghuman film in the Himalayas, Kalachakra. In 2001 she performed at venues as diverse as Glastonbury Festival & The Royal Geographical Society & performed with Ninja Tune's Sounds From The Ground. In 2002 her first solo tour of 6 major UK cities established her as a solo artist in her own right. In 2003 she won a Women In Music Award, started the beinghuman club nights & performed extensively from Salisbury Festival to Hackney Empire. In 2004 Gaynor created the first beinghuman festival working with many world class artists including double Grammy nominated 1 Giant Leap. She produced Senegalese kora maestro Sadio Cissokho's debut album & remixed Lee Scratch Perry's classic track "War In a Babylon". In 2005 she won an Arts Council Award & was mentored by Rob Bozas, who runs Peter Gabriel's company, Realworld. She was artist in residence at the prestigious members club Babington (Soho) House. In 2006 she held the first beinghuman exhibition in Red Gate Gallery, London quickly followed by her first solo show in Mile End Gallery, London. In 2007 she released the CD who am i? to critical acclaim and played 22 stages at Glastonbury Festival in one weekend, a Glastonbury record! in 2008 Gaynor recorded an EP with Juno Award Winning guitarist, Steve Dawson, supported the Martin Harley band on a UK tour & worked with Asian Dub Foundation's Dr Das on remixes of Who Am I? Building her great live reputation & e mail fan base of over 25,000. Gaynor works from the beinghuman warehouse in Somerset, a 5,000 sq ft of gallery, event & studio space for music, art, film & events. Gaynor is currently in the studio working on her next music & art project, Space & Time with the beinghuman collective or tbc.

Contact details
Ms  Gaynor  O'Flynn
34 Regent Studios
London
E8 4QN
gaynor@beinghuman.com
www.gaynorolfynn.com

Other Artform categories
Film / Video / TV
Music Production
Musician
Singer
Audio-visual Art