Fleur is a Naarm/Melbourne based artist whose practice incorporates textiles, large and small scale sculptural installation, assemblage, printmaking and mixed media work. She is interested in surface texture, the layering of imagery and the movement between two and three dimensions.
Current Ideas within her work explore issues of female identity with a reframing of normative labelling and stereotypes. Other themes include surveillance and technology, homelessness and asylum, impermanence, death and loss. Fleur is interested in ‘the tribe’ whether it is a group of football fans, a shared cultural heritage or a gender grouping.
After completing honours in Sculpture at RMIT sixteen years ago her work has been exhibited widely around Australia including in the Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art, Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award, Georges River Art Prize, The Heysen Prize for Landscape, Sculpture at Scenic World, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Footscray Art Prize, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, the Fisher's Ghost Art Awards, Bay of Fires Art Prize and Victorian Craft Awards. Fleur won the prize for her work 'Yellow Torso' in the Recycle and Reuse materials category in the 2024 Remagine Art Prize, NSW.
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Honours 1st Class (Sculpture), RMIT University, Melbourne.
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) with Distinction, RMIT University.
Diploma of Arts (Visual Arts), Printmaking (Major), RMIT TAFE, Melbourne.
Master of Arts in Cultural and Media Policy, Griffith University, Brisbane.
Associate Diploma in Performing Arts (Arts Management), Perth.
Diploma of Design, Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne.
2025 | Omnia Art Prize, St Kevin's College, Victoria. |
2024 | Heysen Prize for Landscape, Hahndorf Academy, SA. |
2023 | INTerior small sculpture exhibition, YAVA Gallery & Arts Hub, Victoria. |
2022 | Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Victoria. |
2021 | Of Colour & Light, Women Abstract Artists Biennial 2020, West End Art Space,Vic. |
2020 | Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Art Gallery, Victoria. |
2019 | Yarra Valley Arts/Yering Station Sculpture Award, Victoria. |
2018 | Hiraeth, Womens Artist Collective group show, Tacit Art Studio, Victoria. |
2017 | Bay of Fires Art Prize, St Helens, Tasmania. |
2016 | Clearwater Sculpture Prize, Queanbeyan, NSW. |
2015 | Yarra Valley Arts/Yering Station Sculpture Award, Victoria. |
2014 | Impressions, Australian Print Workshop, Victoria. |
2013 | Small Worlds recycled art exhibition, Footscray Library, Victoria. |
2012 | Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition (Selected), Victoria. |
2011-07 | Uncontained, Big West Festival ‘ Tagging Space’ installation, The Substation, Victoria. |
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (Australian Print Workshop Impressions edition)
Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne (Print Edition)
Margie Sullivan (Private Collector Sydney)
Various private collections in Australia and America
2020 | Finding Form with Fibre (Sculptural Basketry in Australia), edited by Ruth Woods, published by Ingram Spark |
2019 | Textile Fibre Forum Art Magazine (#133 March). 'Petite Miniature Textiles by Dr Margot Yeomans |
2018 | Wangaratta Cronicle (22/6/18) 'Fine Handiwork', What's On This Weekend, Petite Miniature Textile Exhibition, Wangaratta Gallery The 8percent, 'International Artwork Makes Landfall at the Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Interview with Mitch Ziems the 8percent.com |
2015 | Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Audio interview |
2012 | 'Weaving in Mapuru with Yolgnu women', (article Ceres.org.au) |
2016 | Artist Talk, Mountain Maker’s Retreat, Craft School Oz, Victoria |
2015 | Community Loom, Emerald Hill Festival, Australian Tapestry Workshop |
2014 | Community Loom, Emerald Hill Festival, Australian Tapestry Workshop Children’s Weaving workshop, ATW, 1 July Weaving demonstration, ATW, Craft Market, Melbourne Terra Vivente Art Studio residency, Guardia San Framondi, Italy |
2013 | Australian Tapestry Workshop Artist in Residence, Victoria. |
2012 | 'Weaving in Mapuru with Yolgnu women', (article Ceres.org.au) |
