[3][4] Gunning was named the recipient of the 1987 Granada Foundation Prize, the Falmouth School of Art Sculpture Award and was part of the Whitworth New Contemporaries.
[1][4] Her next work was Malcolm, Lloyd, Angela, Norman, Jane in 1997, in which she filmed those with speech impediments choreographed across five individual monitors.
[3] During 2000, she received the LAB Visual Arts Fund: Artists, and won the DAAD award for residency at Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munster the following year.
[4] She created the multi-faceted work The Archive, The Event and its Architecture inspired by her experience of being Wordsworth Trust's artist-in-residence and the intervention RePhil with the Philbrook Museum of Art collection in 2007.
[10] Gunning researches Georges Bataille's notion of l'informe, analysis of the binary thought of form verses content and the social implications of formlessness, in relation to behaviour and location.
"[3] Jessica Lack of The Guardian wrote that Gunning "is not afraid of awkward situations, in fact her videos seem to thrive on them.