Fri 5 March — Sun 11 April • Gwe 5 Mawrth — Sul 11 Ebrill

Fiona Curran's paintings, collages and installations utilise colour, pattern and landscape imagery to conjure up imagined spaces that play with notions of the natural and the artificial, utopia and dystopia. Curran is interested in the effect of advances in technology on our sense of perception, as we increasingly encounter the world through the screen images of the television, computer, mobile phone, cinema and advertising. These media not only offer ‘action-at-a-distance’ but they inundate us with saturated colour due to light behind and within the screen.

Curran’s recent works engage with the utopian impulse within Modernism referencing geometric forms from this period in our recent history. Her geometries, in contrast to this, explode outwards in fractured bursts of colour; the forms folded over one another; the colours layered in order to ‘contaminate’ their purity through an embrace of heightened (artificial) colour.

For Chapter, Curran is working directly on the Caffi Bar walls to produce a site specific piece that is shown alongside her recent paintings and veneered panels.

Fiona Curran studied for a degree in Philosophy at the University of Manchester before completing a BA and MA in the School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. Recent projects include the essay ‘The Space of Language’ in the exhibition catalogue Anne Charnock: Certainty Suspended published by Castlefield Gallery (2008); a site-specific commission for Vital Arts at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel (2009); a one-year international artist's residency at The Florence Trust, London (2008-09) and a collaborative work with the Finnish sound artist, Marko Timlin. Forthcoming projects include a site-specific work for the Tatton Park Biennial 2010.

www.fionacurran.co.uk

Images courtesy of Phil Babot.