page_title: Fiann Paul
section_title: Art
hierarchical_section_title: Fiann Paul / Art
caption_attribution_description: English: "Dialog" project by Anna Leoniak and Fiann Paul. The installation of the photographs of the Icelandic children from the rural areas of Iceland, decorated the corner of Austurstraeti and Laekjargata in the heart of the capital city of Iceland from May to December 2008. Copyrights released for Wikipedia under creative common license, uploaded by author from http://www.fiannpaul.com/projects-and-publications.html
context_page_description: Fiann Paul is an Icelandic explorer, athlete, artist and speaker. He is the world's most record-breaking explorer, and holds the world's highest number of performance-based Guinness World Records ever achieved within a single athletic discipline, ranking above Michael Phelps, and Roger Federer as of 2020.
  Fiann is known for being the fastest ocean rower and the most record-breaking ocean rower. As of 2020, he is the first and only person to achieve the Ocean Explorers Grand Slam. For comparison, about 70 people have achieved the land Explorers Grand Slam.
  Fiann holds many of the highest honors in ocean rowing history, including the world's highest number of performance-based "World’s First" Guinness titles. These titles are known also as "Historical Firsts", typically awarded by Guinness for achievements such as "First to row 5 oceans", "First to hold current speed records on all 4 oceans". Fiann holds several "World's First" titles for polar explorations, such as being the first to row some of the most extreme major water basins of both polar regions.
context_section_description: As an artist, Fiann is the author of numerous national-level Icelandic and international exhibitions including several large-scale, outdoor art installations. His work mainly focuses on themes of indigenous people, children, breastfeeding and animal rights.
  He was one of two authors of "Dialog", an outdoor art installation that spanned two main streets in the heart of the capital city with photographs of Icelandic children, 2008. He was also the author of the visual art project, "See It!" promoting the awareness of breastfeeding, an outdoor art installation in downtown Reykjavík at the facade of street Tryggvagata in 2011.
  As an artist, Fiann was also involved in supporting the welfare of an endangered local breed of horses unique to the Faroe Islands. As a photographer he also documented many of his expeditions.
  Since 2009 his Arctic photographs have been on permanent display at the International Terminal of Kulusuk Airport, the main airport of East Greenland. Some of his photographs of breastfeeding are displayed in Ísafjörður Hospital. Together with photographs of RAX, Fiann's Arctic photographs were selected to represent Greenlandic Art at the Arctic Winter Games in Canada, 2012. In 2011 Fiann swam with seals in a freezing pond next to an outdoor display of his photographs at the Family Garden in Reykjavik. His name was officially added to the seals' family list and mentioned along with the other seals on the portal of Reykjavik City.
caption: "Dialog", large-scale, outdoor art installation in 2008
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