Max Fleury
Max Fleury is an artist based in Pōneke. His practice documents performances and objects through video and photography. Fleury completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours at Massey University. Since graduating in 2018, he has worked on various collaborative projects that investigate the commons through vernacular forms of video influenced by vlogs and slideshows. Topics covered in his works on CIRCUIT include e-scooters, op shopping, public art, and pop music. Taking these topics and experimenting with editing conventions and modes of presentation, his work reframes and sometimes elevates mundane aspects of everyday life. He is a facilitator at play_station ARI and works in an art supplies store.
Recent exhibitions include: Blue Nylon (with Bena Jackson), Homestead Galleries, Tāmaki Makaurau, 2024; Max Speed, play_station, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, 2022; be the hero of your own movie (with Anna Brimer), Toi Pōneke, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, 2021; and Same thing every day (with Bena Jackson), Window Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau, 2020.
Max Fleury on CIRCUIT · 6 works
Watery Features (2024)
In Watery Features, artists Bena Jackson and Max Fleury traverse the streets and parks of Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, photographing the various water flows they come across.
I am not a tiny sparrow AKA Bouquet for Max (2020)
A long distance collaboration during a 2020 Covid lockdown
One who goes quickly (2020)
The Flamingo electric scooters, now ubiquitous in cities around Aotearoa, are repurposed as objects of whimsy.
Writing & podcasts featuring Max Fleury
Max Fleury: Public Nuisance
Max Fleury: Public Nuisance
Public space, the lifecycle of everyday objects, and clashing ideas of value. Max Fleury discusses four works on CIRCUIT that include collaborations with Anna Brimer, Bena Jackson, and Sabina Rizos-Shaw.