FIONA CURRAN, Zoe Budwig

We had a talk by Fiona Curran, an embroidery lecturer at MMU. As we are now all working towards our final visualisations and image/ video's it was really helpful to be able to see how she had put her ideas forward for commission. She showed us her initial thoughts, her final visualisations and then outcomes, so we could really understand the journey.




Royal London Hospital Commission

Just like us Fiona started with paper models, to help her visualise her ideas. She also showed us some paintings to get a flavour of where her ideas had come from. 

Here we can see the space in which she designed for and the final outcomes, she mentioned that she wasn't allowed to paint on the walls so she had to work out a way to attach her pieces to the wall so they could be removed and put back again. 






Solo Exhibition at Chapter Arts Centre


Here, you can see she has painted directly on to the wall. 


This is probably what she had visioned for the hospital, however you always have to work with the client.


I took a lot from this talk, as I often see completed artworks but for us this journey of ideas is really helpful when displaying our work. Hope this is useful for others too.