ABOUT THE ARTIST

David Le Fleming

I like to mix painting techniques that, in the same frame, suggest a lens on time. I use conceptual and physical motifs to hint at other ways of seeing.

Line work features heavily, with elements like hair used as storytelling devices. Repeating and punctuated line-scapes abstractly plot narrative and character, the subject’s way of being and relevant context.

The surface is important to me. I often use found objects such as old metal with typography and defects that I work with and weave into the work. The past purposes of these surfaces illuminate one of my central themes: verifying the passage of time.

I’m from Manawatu in New Zealand’s North Island, and after 15 years working in London, now live and work in New Plymouth.