‘Ark Angel’

Suspended ceiling installation. Porcelain, wood, metals and found objects.

‘Family Flying Circus’

Porcelain, wood, metal, glass, illustration, found objects, and lighting.

‘On this strange merry-go-round. Around and around we all go. For a moment it began to slow, what the future holds nobody knows’

Wood and porcelain carousel installation

W90cm x H210cm x D90cm

Artist Statement

Who would have guessed that two little ‘Lab Rats’ Astra and Pfizer would save the human race from certain mass extinction. This is a story of forgiveness. It’s a story of reflection, stepping off the carousel of everyday goings on and changing our careless habits. And it’s a story of embracing our interconnectedness and treating all living things with equality, respect and kindness.

Making Room for the Wildlife

Porcelain tile and living succulent wall installation.

W200cm x H68cm x D25cm

Artist statement

This three dimensional porcelain wall map represents the suburbs around my home, including its natural and man made spaces. It explores the tenuous relationship between humans and the critters opportunistically living among us. When I sit quietly in my back yard this is what I hear the wild say. “We were here before you and left ... so leave the gate open, don’t mend the hole in the fence and teach your dog to be kind. We crave sanctuary, we will come back, we will all come back…especially if the garden tap occasionally drips.”

‘It takes one kind act to start a ripple.’

Porcelain, plastic, illustration, wood and metal.

‘The Artist and the Angler’

porcelain, wood, plaster, fibre, and metal.

Height 130cm x Depth 50cm x width 130cm 2019 Western Australia

Commission brief

To produce a wall mounted artwork for a family that have two young children and a much loved dog. The artwork is to be installed in the children’s play room and the intention is to capture the character and interests of the children and to immortalise their ageing canine friend.

Artist statement:

Floating weightlessly on the wall and the foundation of this artwork is a boat, representing a fantastical and imaginative journey. Featured on the deck is a little girl who is cradling her own crafted masterpieces, reflecting her perpetual love of making stuff. She is surrounded by a Lilliputian village that provides her love and support, because ‘it takes a village to raise child’. Her brother, as fearless and determined as Peter Pan, sits suspended precariously on a wooden spoon beyond the boat. He is imagining what creatures lurk in the waters below as he dangles a cup of tea on the end of his fishing line. This is a gesture of friendship to a passing puffer fish because ‘fish are friends not food’. Appearing from a window in the hull, like a salty old man of the sea, is the oldest member of the family, the beloved family pet, Oreo.

‘Floorplan’

The inspiration behind ‘Floorplan’ was a collection of Fleur’s grandmothers old suitcases looking for a new home. Slowly over a year Fleur transformed twelve suitcases into a series of dioramas representing every room of her home. The result was a single wall mounted artwork. Each suitcase divulges the everyday, standard goings on in her families far from regular home. Translating ‘Floorplan' into an illustrative book has given Fleur wonderful freedom to embellish the myths that are now legend in their home. The book was designed by Lowana Bibby of Insomnia Design.

The work below was sculpted and illustrated by Fleur, and inspired by her family and the creatures they live with. All the found suitcases have been repurposed with the help of Matthew Braxton-Smith.