Curran, Fiona, 2024, Show, Exhibition or Event, Open sky
Abstract or Description: | Open Sky continues Curran’s ongoing research into the impacts of screen-based technologies on embodied experience and modes of attention. This body of work developed from the gallery’s courtyard space which highlights the subtle interactions between the architectural surroundings and the light of the changing seasons. Reflecting on the double meaning in Chinese philosophy of tian (天) as both sky and cosmos, Curran’s works - and the processes involved in their making – invite access to different modes of time and attentiveness to what remains of the everyday beyond the spaces of the screen. They explore slow or vacant time, inner contemplation, and drifting states of consciousness where the sky becomes the physical space of the earth’s atmosphere, subject to changing light conditions and weather patterns, but also a metaphorical space between visible and invisible worlds terrestrial and celestial. In these works colour is an affirmation of presence and the act of noticing. It is spatial, material, rhythmic and spiritual, revealing the artist’s intimate connections to place and her engagement with the more-than-human world found in her everyday encounters with plants, trees, animals, insects and weather. Colour is gathered and patched together in densely stitched layers of painted cloth and dyed fabrics, suggesting the elusiveness of sensory experience and inner moments of illumination. |
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Subjects: | Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art > W190 Fine Art not elsewhere classified | ||||||||
School or Centre: | School of Design | ||||||||
Date Deposited: | 21 Oct 2024 12:00 | ||||||||
Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2024 12:00 | ||||||||
URI: | https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/6055 |
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