Fleur Patrick is a contemporary painter whose work explores how images shape memory, perception, and our sense of place. Drawing from found and personally sourced imagery, she translates visual references into paint to slow them down and hold them in suspension. Removed from their original contexts, these images lose narrative certainty and become charged yet difficult to place.

Patrick is drawn to imagery that feels familiar but not entirely knowable — scenes and objects that hover between fiction and lived experience. This interest is informed by an ongoing sensitivity to displacement and the experience of being between spaces, where recognition is accompanied by estrangement. Painting becomes a way of working through this condition — not to resolve it, but to remain with it.

Process is central to the work. Built through successive translucent layers of oil paint that are partially wiped away and reworked, the surfaces register accumulation and erasure. Images surface and recede in the same moment, creating a shifting balance between visibility and obscurity. The material presence of paint interrupts illusion, foregrounding the painting as an object.

The paintings do not offer fixed interpretations; instead, they invite viewers to navigate uncertainty, becoming aware of how memory and projection shape what is seen.

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Fleur Patrick was born in New Zealand and emigrated to the UK as a child, leaving behind her home and extended family. This rupture, alongside her perspective as a neurodivergent woman, has contributed to a sustained sensitivity to geographical and social estrangement. While not autobiographical, these conditions inform her ongoing exploration of displacement, memory, and perception.

She graduated with a First-Class degree in Fine Art before completing an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2003. She has received numerous awards, including the Zurich Contemporary Painting Prize, the Amlin Painting Award, and the Desmond Preston Drawing Award. She was a finalist for the Lexmark European Art Prize and, more recently, longlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize and shortlisted for the Jackson’s Painting Prize in 2023.

Her work has been exhibited widely, including with Blue Shop Galleries, London; Irving Gallery, Oxford; and at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. The opening of, Between Somewhere and Nowhere, at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham, marks her first museum solo exhibition. Her work is held in several collections, including the Royal College of Art, De Montfort University, and the MS Amlin Art Collection.

After many years in London, she now lives and works in Nottinghamshire.