LIAM FLEMING

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’.

Liam Fleming, portrait in the studio 2023 by Sam Roberts
Liam Fleming, Transitory Form #8 2023, glass, 53 x 41 x 37 cm. Photo: Grant Hancock
Liam Fleming, Transitory Form #9 2023, glass, 55 x 53 x 60 cm. Photo: Grant Hancock