Career Biography

Fleur was raised on a farm in the Wheat Belt of Western Australia. In 1993 she received a Diploma of Ceramic Art and Design at the Western Australian School Of Art and Design. In 1996, She graduated from Curtin University in Western Australia with a Degree in Visual Art and in 1997 she achieved First Class Honours in ceramics at the Hobart School of Art in Tasmania.

Fleur has presented as a master at Gulgong in New South Wales, Australia and demonstrated at The Australian National Ceramics Conference. Fleur has presented at Universities and Art Colleges throughout Australia including The Australian National University in Canberra, The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, The Jam Factory in Adelaide and the Arts Academy of The University of Ballarat. She has demonstrated at conferences in Bendigo Victoria and on The Sunshine coast in Queensland.  Fleur was the Artists in Residence at The Alberta College of Art and Design. She has presented at The University of Manitoba, Red Dear College in Alberta and The Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver. She has also done residencies at Jingdezhen Sculpture factory in Jingdezhen China and Fiskars Village in Finland.

Fleur exhibits extensively throughout Australia including  Kerrie Lowe  Gallery and Cudgegong Gallery in NSW, Skespi in Victoria, Marks & Gardner Gallery QLD, and in Western Australia  at The Studio Gallery Yallingup , Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The Fremantle Art Centre and Aspects of Kings Park. Fleur’s work is also featured at Red Sea Gallery in Singapore.

Her work has been published in The Ceramics Journal of Australia, Art and Perception and Object Magazine, 500 Cups and 500 Pitchers by Lark Books, “Porcelain and Bone China “by Sasha Wardell, “Craft Unbound, Make The Common Precious” by Kevin Murray and “Naked Clay” by Jane Perryman.

 

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