Artist Statement 

 

Donna Fleming BA MA RCA
(Multi-disciplinary / Sculpture / Drawing / Mixed Media) 

The Work

My work moves in the space between life and death, presence and disappearance — an atmosphere where energy is felt more than it is seen. I’m drawn to what is blurry, dark, fuzzy, half-formed, or dissolving. Nothing in my work is truly static or solid; even stone carries movement, memory, and vibration.

Mediums

I carve, draw, and construct forms that hover between becoming and fading, revealing the fragile boundary between the physical world and the invisible one that runs beneath it. My materials — limestone, metal, charcoal, shadow, space — are chosen for their ability to hold both weight and emptiness.

Inspiration

I am not interested in perfect form. I am interested in essence: the pulse behind the form, the moment before it fixes into something nameable. Each piece is an attempt to touch that threshold where matter becomes energy, where the human and the elemental blur, where nothing is quite stable but everything is alive. My practice is a continual return to that liminal place — the quiet tremor between worlds — where the unseen presses up against the seen, and where creation feels like remembering something ancient.

“We are luminous beings confronted with the mystery of existence. I am drawn to what slips between worlds — the blur between life and death, matter and energy — where nothing is fixed, and everything flickers with presence.”

Donna Fleming