Artist Profile — Fleur Stevenson
Fleur Stevenson is a New Zealand-born, Eora / Sydney-based emerging artist. Fleur creates layered, textural works which investigate the compositional relationships between negative space, form and colour, from the social and physical environments she visits.
Working intuitively, with a sense of curiosity, Fleur enjoys playing with the process by drawing directly on the surface and observing and responding to what she sees around her. These studies are then used to create stencils which are composed and layered with paint and spray paint. The initial drawn image becomes inserted amidst the materiality of other mediums. The value of the process is visible, but the essence of the place or person still lingers, informed by the immediacy of the drawn marks and foundations.
Most recently, Fleur was awarded the ‘Work of Excellence Prize’ in the 2022 Glebe Art Show for her work ‘The Last Night’. Her work ‘A Journey’s Drawing’ was a finalist in the 2021 Parkin Drawing Prize in New Zealand, as judged by Sarah Farrar, Head of Curatorial and Exhibitions at Auckland Art Gallery - Toi o Tamaki. In 2021, Fleur’s work was also selected as a finalist in the 2021 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Milton Art Prize and the SBS Landscape Prize.
