For the exhibition, Fiona Curran | Lightness, the artist has drawn inspiration from the history of Jesus College Cambridge as the site of a Benedictine nunnery to create an eight-metre long wall painting created specifically for the West Court Gallery. Through this painting, and the other exhibited artworks, Curran reflects on the observance of canonical hours (traditional times of prayer) as a framework for the body’s close relationship to diurnal and seasonal rhythms. Curran also responds to the ways that screen-based technologies are impacting our sensory engagement with place, through the flattening of space, the compression of time, and the manipulation of perception and attention. The exhibition Fiona Curran | Lightness brings together elements of the artist’s daily experience as abstract arrangements of colour and material. The aim is to resist, or counteract, the screen’s subdual of sunlight and intrusion into spaces of daydream and absent contemplation. The exhibition seeks to create a space that allows for different ways of being present beyond the relentless demands of the information economy and the endless distractions of the screen. Here, ‘lightness’ refers not only to a notion of luminosity but also to an internal sense of connection and wider sense of belonging.