AUDREY Fleming is a 38-year-old artist, originally from the rebel county of Cork.
In 2007, she packed her bags and moved to Surrey to be with her then boyfriend. From a home studio, the UCC graduate, who comes from creative stock, painted, took photographs and sold homemade baby quilts.
Next, she studied Art and Design at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham where she met Irish artist and lecturer David Blackmore which she says “changed my life.”
“Having lost my mother in 2008, the course gave me a new lease of life and helped me to develop into the artist I am today,” Fleming told The Irish Post.
Graduating later this month, Fleming has evolved as an artist and is best known for her non-traditional sculpture, drawing and photography.
“I take my inspiration from materials that I am drawn to. The overlooked details found in nature continue to inspire me,” she says.
She clearly enjoys working with a clash of unusual materials including paper bark from silver birch trees and Finnish reindeer moss alongside graph paper and mirror-polished steel.
Another juxtaposed project will see her knitting with seaweed in Cork this summer.
Fleming is also currently collaborating with Finnish illustrator Ida Kortelainen to make prints by collaging various materials and “marrying our very distinct styles.”
The artist is showing work from her latest series of artworks such as Incarnadine1 (pictured right) in a group show called SUDA: Release the Elephant in Hotel Elephant, London from June 24-27.
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