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.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Original Myth
Potocki Paterson
Wellington
2018 Scrapyard Saints
Potocki Paterson
Wellington
2016 Instruments of Possession
Potocki Paterson
Wellington
2015 Inflammable Liquids
See Studio
London
2009 Petrol
Signal Gallery
London
2008 Gullwing Mary and the Dannevirke Divas
Degree Art
London
2008 Morri’s Gumpy
Charlotte Street
London
2006 Ted Mongering
Foundry
London
2005 Saltarello
Charlotte Street
London
2005 Wagon
Foundry
London
2004 No Peerless Social Lion
Foundry
London
2003 Making up for Lost Body Language
Anvil House
Wellington
2003 No.2 Join the Hayboy Club
Start Gallery
Wellington
2002 Cordial Factions
Anvil House
Wellington
2002 Vocabulary Gone Feral
Walrus Gallery
Wellington
2001 Barney’s World of Absolutes
Gallery on Riddiford
Newtown, Wellington
2001 My Guru Needs Fixing
Rimu Street Gallery
Eastbourne, Wellington
2000 Sp Sp
John Street Grill
Newtown, Wellington
2000 Making Sense Between Planes
Aro Street Cafe
Wellington
1999 Come Frusion Tide
Brasserie XVI
Eastbourne, Wellington
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 And the Pagola is done
Contemporary Art Space
New Plymouth
2020 State of the Art (Hanging with Rodin)
Percy Thomson Gallery
Stratford
2020 Super Cuba Dupa
VR exhibition
Potocki Paterson
Wellington
2019 Short and Punchy
Potocki Paterson
Wellington
2019 Moving on
Koru on Devon
New Plymouth
2019 Taranaki Arts Trail
Percy Thomson Gallery
Stratford
2017 Objects of Desire
Apart Gallery
London
2015 Lost and Found
James Freeman Gallery
London
2014 Apart Summer Show
Apart Gallery
London
2012 Apart Winter Show
Apart Gallery
London
2011 Generations
Saatchi Gallery & Chelsea Old Town Hall
London
2011 Apart Summer Show
Apart Gallery
London
2011 Configured
Signal Gallery
London
2010 From London to Lille
Vertikall Galerie
Lille
2010 Carrousel Du Louvre
Louvre
Paris
2010 10 Years Apart
Apart Gallery
London
2010 Cluster Fits Five
Foundry
London
2010 Jam 3
Vitry-sur-Seine
Paris
2009 Artists for Dalai Lama
Krauts Gallery
Köln & Frankfurt
2009 Cluster Fits
Foundry
London
2009 Go Figure
Krauts Gallery, UFO
Frankfurt
2008 House of Yamake
Apart Gallery
London
2008 Mixed Blessings
Signal Gallery
London
2005 Definition 5
Praxis Studios
London
2003 Agapemone
Wellington
1998 5+
Wellington
