Fleur Patrick

Fleur Patrick was born in New Zealand and emigrated to the UK as a child. Her experiences of displacement and estrangement, and a longstanding sensitivity to perception and place, inform her exploration of memory, identity and belonging.

She gained a 1st class degree in Fine Art before completing an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2003. Her awards include the Zurich Contemporary Painting Prize, Amlin Painting Award and Desmond Preston Drawing Award. Her work has been widely exhibited and is held in numerous private and public collections. In 2026, she presented her first museum solo exhibition at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham.

Her paintings explore architectural spaces drawn from found imagery, often depicting places she has never visited but which feel strangely familiar. Working in layered oil paint, she builds and erodes surfaces through processes of application and removal, allowing chance and material behaviour to shape the image alongside deliberate structure.

The paintings exist between memory and invention, clarity and disorientation, inviting viewers to navigate unstable spaces where perception, place and meaning remain unresolved. Through this tension between control and unpredictability, the work reflects on displacement, estrangement and the uncertainty of memory.