Art on a Postcard x War Child UK 2024 Part I

About

Fiona Curran read Philosophy at the University of Manchester before studying at Manchester School ofArt and the Slade School of Fine Art, she teaches at the Royal College of Art in London and works from her studio in Cambridgeshire.Curran works with painting, textiles and installation, exploring the poetics of landscape space and the impacts of screen-based technologies on our attention, memory and the diminishment of our sensory engagement with the natural world. The presence of a heightened colour palette, alongside assembled and collaged surfaces, seeks to both mimic and counter the fractured, illuminated and seductive spaces of the screen, immersing the viewer in a physical and material engagement with colour and space

Education

The Slade School of Fine Art, Manchester School of Art and The University of Manchester

Select Exhibitions/Awards

Fiona Curran has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally including exhibitions at Kettle’s Yard,Cambridge; The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; MAC, Birmingham; Touchstones, Rochdale; Chapter Gallery, Cardiff; Baltic 39, Newcastle; Assembly Point, London; Sluice, Berlin, Germany; Cable Factory, Helsinki and M100, Odense, Denmark.

Site-specific works include Bright Shadows Point, a public sculpture for Eddington Locke, Cambridge commissioned through the Contemporary Art Society; Your sweetest empire is to please, for National Trust Gibside, Gateshead, commissioned by the National Trust and Newcastle University; The grass seemed darker than ever for Kielder Forest, Northumberland and This time next year things are going to be different for Tatton Park, Cheshire, which was awarded a RIBA small projects award

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Paint on torn canvas collage

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