Michele Fletcher - Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon: Charity Online Auction London Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | Phillips
  • Michele Fletcher’s vibrant, process-driven paintings explore humanity’s complex relationship with the natural world. Her abstract works envision a realm where plant life flourishes unrestrained, replacing human presence with dynamic, thriving vegetation. Using layered colour and ribbon-like brushwork, Fletcher creates compositions that oscillate between flatness and depth, evoking the surging growth of flora in perpetual bloom. Her intuitive, physically demanding practice involves painting ‘wet on wet’ in extended sessions, channelling sensation and visual memory into gestural marks. The resulting forms – sinuous stems, petals and foliage – interweave in a rhythmic, almost prophetic representation of the natural world’s vitality.
     

    Drawing inspiration from artists like Georgia O’Keeffe, Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell, Fletcher’s work merges the traditions of landscape painting with abstraction. Her pieces reimagine our relationship with nature, offering a chromatic, textural meditation on light, colour and the organic energy of living forms.
     

    Artist portrait. Photo: Courtesy of the artist

    Michele Fletcher (b. 1963, Leamington, Canada; lives and works in London, UK) received a BA from Goldsmiths, University of London (2003) and an MA from Chelsea College of Arts, London (2007). She was a prize winner in the 2020 John Moores Painting Prize. Her first exhibition in Hong Kong, ‘Aftertime’, was held at White Cube (2025). Recent group exhibitions have taken place at Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow (2024); Harper’s Books, New York (2023); and Fredericks & Freiser, New York (2023). Her works are held in public collections, including the EY Collection; Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge; and University of the Arts, London.

    • Provenance

      Donated by the artist and White Cube, London

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Crash

signed, titled and dated 'Michele Fletcher Crash 2024' on the reverse
oil on linen
140 x 70 cm (55 1/8 x 27 1/2 in.)
Painted in 2024.

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£8,000 - 12,000 

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Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon: Charity Online Auction

26 February - 5 March 2025