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Fiona Curran鈥檚 paintings, collages and installations conjure up imagined spaces that play with notions of the real and the unreal, utopia and dystopia. Quoting art historical moments from the Baroque, 19th Century Scenic Wallpapers and early Modernism her works engage with a recurring Utopian impulse, formal idealism and sense of escapism that re-registers in a palette borrowed from the computer screen and advertising.

There鈥檚 an embrace of optimism and hope in the seductive candy colours alongside a subtle sense of unease in the overblown fluorescents and darker undertones. Geometric shapes fracture and explode outwards in bursts of colour or they appear layered, tangled and folded.

The titles of the works often give a further clue to their origin in this push-pull between promise and disillusion referencing song lyrics, novels and films that speak a language of loss and longing, of fragmentation and ambiguity, where all is not quite as it should be in the bright and beautiful image-world we inhabit. Influences including Tom Waits, J.G Ballard, Don DeLillo are influential in the way the artist deals with mapping emotional space in her work.