Oona Culley's delicate interventions describe missing or imagined histories - flowers brought back to life from a twig, furniture long since moved from a room, slim shadows outlined before they grew longer. Though nostalgic, the work isn't entirely melancholy-as compositions these are witty, thoughtful pieces. As the artist says, <By tracing shadows in a subtle trompe l'oeil or the absences left by old or extinct presences, I try to create illusory constructions that play with visual perception and memory. What was previously lost or forgotten gains visibility or takes on an imaginary life in these poetic and ghostly installations and sculptural paintings, combining objects with projection, paint, transparency and layers.> One of her most notable commissions to date spans a wall of Brussels airport and brings delicate woodland to the harsh, man-made interior. A graduate of the both the Ruskin School of Drawing and the Royal College of Art, she has since had her work published as part of the Jan Family group of artists, and won recent acclaim exhibiting as a finalist in the Celeste Art Prize.

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