Fiona Curran's paintings, collages and installations utilise colour, pattern and landscape imagery in order to conjure up imagined spaces that play with notions of the natural and the artificial, utopia and dystopia. The works are framed by an interest in the affect of advances in technology on our sense perception as we encounter the world through the screen images of the television, computer, mobile phone, cinema and advertising. These media not only offer us ‘action-at-a-distance’ but they inundate us with saturated colour because of light behind and within the screen. The visual seduction of colour and image is therefore heightened through this illumination and the world becomes larger, more beautiful and perfect in the process. Recent works engage with the utopian impulse within Modernism referencing geometric forms from this period in our recent history. Curran's geometries however, are fracturing and exploding outwards in bursts of colour, the forms are folded over one another and - in the paintings - colours are layered, contaminating their ‘purity’. The paintings embrace heightened (artificial) colours that are offset by the rawness of the natural linen that surrounds them.

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