David Le Fleming
Posted by Art Project Curator, 10/31/2008 8:31:00 AM
Le Fleming has been exhibiting as an artist for about ten years now, the past five years of which have been in London, Great Britain. Originally from New Zealand, his work is very distinctive, bright and decisive, yet with an air of being feral at the same time. His trademark traits are things such as standardised line breadths and floating 'noise environments' made up of typographic elements to house his human subjects. The shapes are simplified and fenced off with absolute punctuation, whilst the subjects are painted delicately and are sympatheticto the eye.
The canvas is key to Le Fleming’s work, choosing to work with found objects such as car bonnets or fridge doors. Anything which has character fits the bill, but particularly objects with typography still intact are of interest to him. Painting onto such materials has the advantage of acquiring certain contextual properties. They’re real things which have existed with specific purposes. By appropriating these found objects, the artist is toying with the line between authentic artifacts and couched projections of artistic discourse.