Fleur Yorston

FLEUR YORSTON Born in Auckland 1972, New Zealand Fleur Yorston completed a Diploma in Fine Arts at Otago Polytechnic in 1993 then went on to gain a Master of Fine Arts at RMIT University, Australia in 2001.After years of travelling and working in places like the UK, Ireland and Thailand where she was hugely inspired by the museums and art galleries of Europe and New York Fleur returned to Dunedin.

She has consistently exhibited her paintings in New Zealand and has been included in shows in New Zealand, London and Australia. Fleur Yorston’s work incorporates elements of the alchemical and relates to jewellery and body adornment. In Yorston’s work, jewellery carries with it the notion of a memento, a reminder of the past that survives in the memory as a trace, and it may also have a commemorative function. Fleur incorporates elements of the alchemical into her work with a basis of jewellery and body adornment. Body adornment is cross –cultural and it can represent spirituality, beliefs and ideologies. It can become a vessel of cultural memory. Fleur’s work includes continued references to Gordon Walters and her trademark sepia tones have been added to with a strong ochre palette