Gallery
Over 30 years of Ian Fleming's arts practice, three discrete, but interrelated bodies of work have developed, offering insights into being human in our universe at a macro, micro, quantum and personal level.
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BeyondTheFarHorizon
Consists of 4 very different bodies of work in a total of 12 major series of artworks. They offer insights across the universal dimensions of space/time, exploring civilisation, change and being human. Aspects of the exploration are spiritual, symbolic, and mystic while others probe existence at macro, micro, and quantum levels.
A horizon line is always distant - beyond our reach, not unlike the sub-conscious elements of our lives, but through these artworks, perceptive intuition is focused on that borderline territory and beyond.
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Will the real Ian Fleming please stand up...
Establishing identity requires a suspension of disbelief, anything is possible, the canvas is blank, the infant is un-programmed. But who will we become? Within Ian Fleming’s arts practice he has elaborated on the use of multiple identities/avatars - developing 12 of them as an actual medium/artform ...as a method of exploring identity.
If this amazing level diversity can find acceptance inside one head …why not upon the larger scale globe on which we are all BeingHuman?
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Alongside these two long-term and very specifically crafted bodies of work, Ian’s arts practice has very many other facets. This Residue + Loose-Ends, all the other kinds of ArtyStuffStuff includes large-scale commissions, international collaborations, cross-community and conflict transformation projects, workshops, arts festivals, culture night, awards, arts development activities, etc., etc.
...and more generally it also contains the type of on-going drawing and painting ‘habits' that most artists enjoy.