Glass is his medium. Living and working in Adelaide, South Australia, Liam Fleming is highly regarded, has won numerous awards and in 2023 his sculptures were the subject of a major exhibition: Liam Fleming: Light and Colour, at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
In 2022, he exhibited experimental sculptures in Liam Fleming: Falling into space at the University of New South Wales Galleries, Sydney. These recent exhibitions revealed his rule-breaking experimentation into the medium of glass or as he puts it, ‘controlled demolition’:
My work aims to creatively demolish the pre-existing ideas of perfection and regimes I have created for myself through years of production glassblowing.
Fleming’s ‘controlled demolition’ also sees him breaking down the boundaries between art, design and architecture.
Liam Fleming’s distinctive voice and forward-looking vision are attracting attention following inclusion of his captivating sculptural objects in the important events of the world of design: Melbourne Design Week, Milan Design Week and London Design Week.
His ‘new forms’, says Hamish Sawyer, ‘ have required Fleming to relinquish much of his control over the making process in the creation of something exciting and unfamiliar’.