Q & A with Fleur Stevenson for THIS PLACE

The Corner Store Gallery - Fleur Stevenson

Q & A with Fleur Stevenson for THIS PLACE

Fleur Stevenson has been one of our most popular artists here at The Corner Store Gallery since early 2019 when we first discovered her. We so excited that she agreed to be part of our new exhibition THIS PLACE. Fleur has created a special body of work just for us inspired by the Hawkesbury River.

How did you become involved with The Corner Store Gallery?

Since starting my practice late 2017, I worked away in my studio for all of 2018 and in 2019, I plucked up the courage to enter art prizes which is when I came across Madi and her beautiful gallery in Orange.

I was very humbled to be selected as a finalist in the 2019 Mini Series art prize and a group exhibition called LANDSCAPE, and three exhibitions in 2020: ABSTRACT, 8x10 and more recently HOME.

Tell us about your practice? How long have you been making art? What is your favourite subject matter? Where do you create your art?

I’m originally from New Zealand and most of my childhood was spent being loaded into the car by my parents and spending weekends travelling around the North Island.

This continued into my early adulthood, which set me up for a lifelong passion for the great outdoors and the need to explore and understand the cultural significance of a land.

Since beginning my practice in 2017, I’ve been working on developing my own visual language of abstracting landscapes I visit and my ‘go-to’ mediums are spray paint and acrylic. I work mostly en plein air and further develop ideas in my studio.

Tell us about the body of work you've created for THIS PLACE. Why have you chosen this particular place?

In response to the theme This Place, I recently visited the Hawkesbury River in NSW and considered both the physical and immersive experience of painting in the landscape, combined with painting what I can see around me.

I hope to depict the Hawkesbury using my own visual language to create compositions of movement, space, perspective and form, and textural elements.

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