Belgian-Australian artist Lorraine Defleur was born in Brussels in 1970 and is now based in Perth, Western Australia.

With a background in architecture and fine art in Belgium, Lorraine has developed a distinctive artistic practice centred on linear creations and the representation of microstructural spaces.

Through lines or repeated patterns and black ink, she creates dreamscapes which sometimes represent reality such as the extraordinary beauty of the Australian land. Other times, these dreamscapes represent something more abstract such as the duality between nature and human intervention, or snapshots of brain activity that have a universal echo for the viewer.

www.lorrainedefleur.com

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Education

1995  Master Degree in Architecture – I.S.A.C.F. La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium

1997 Tertiary qualification in Visual Arts.

 

Collections

2025    Publications of works in Artists Registry – 9/11 Memorial & Museum –

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2019    Public collection – Goolugatup Heathcote Gallery, City of Melville, WA, Australia.

Private collections US, Australie, UK, France & Belgium.

 

Solo exhibitions

2026 – “Dreamland” – In-Gate Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2025 – “Ex Chao Ordo” – Espace Constantin Chariot, Brusselss, Belgium

2024 – “Dreamscapes Down Under” – Collie Art Gallery, WA, Australia;

 

Prize 

2026        Patrons Award – 2026 Contemporary Print Media Awards, Australia

2025        The Dorothea Hansen-Knarhoi Emerging Artist Award 2025, AGWA Gallery, Australia

2023        Prize I – Rotary Club of Collie, Australia

2022        Best work on paper – City of kalgoorlie-Boulder, Australia

2021        Emerging Award Winner – City of Rockingham Art Awards, Australia

2020        1st prize Drawing – City of Melville Art Award, Australia

2019        Emerging Artist Award  – City of Busselton Art Award, Australia

Second Prize winner – Town of Claremont Art Award & Exhibition, Australia

Emerging Award Winner – City of Rockingham Art Awards, Australia

1st prize – Works on Paper – City of Wanneroo Community Art Awards & Exhibitions, Australia,

 

Press

2026       On Paper: The Journal of the Washington Print Club, U.S.A.

2026       “Twins” & “Twin Towers, no comment.’, U.S.A.

Publication for commemoration 25th anniversary of 9-11 – U.S.A.

25 02 2026 – MAD – Belgium

11 02 2026 – La Libre Belgique – Belgium

February 2026 – ARTS 22 – Belgium

30 10 2025 – Le Soir – Belgium

22 10 2025 – La Libre Belgique – Belgium

 

Group Exhibitions 2019 – 2026 – WA, Australia

Melville Art Awards – Cossack Art Awards; PAWA – Contemporary Print Media Awards; Minnawarra Art Awards, Armadale – Artistonish January 2026;  City of Melville Art Awards, Melville; Town of Claremont Art Awards & Exhibition; Cossack Art Awards, Karratha; Collie Art Prize; Rockingham Art Awards; Fine Art @Perth College;  Morawa Art Awards, Fine Art @ Hale, Wembley Downs;  Perth Royal Art Prize for Landscape, Claremont; TEMP, Victoria Park, Mid West Art Prize, Geraldton; City of Bayswater Art Prize, City of Stirling Art Awards; City of Melville – Art Awards; City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Art Prize; City of Wanneroo Community Art Awards & Exhibitions; Minnawarra Art Awards, Armadale; City of Belmont Art Award; City of Busselton Art Award; City of Mandurah Art Awards; City of Gosnells Community Art Exhibition and Awards.

 

Work experience

2025-2026       ACT – His Majesty Theatre & Heath Ledger Theatre

Front of House Attendant.

2023-2024       Perth Concert Hall

                          Front of House Attendant.

2020 – 2022    Plastic Sandwich Company 

Mount and frame work.

2020 –2022    Curtin Family Home – Business registration LaFlor Agency

Property Manager for  the National Trust.

2005– 2026    Visual artist – www.lorrainedefleur.com

2013– 2018    Voluntary work for Schools – Friends of Music @ Shenton College and Sporting Groups

Ticket sales using Trybooking, organizing events, musical concerts, coordinating school art work.

2013 – 2020   French tutor

2016 – 2017   Support Worker

2014 – 2016   Architectural Renovations – Australia.

2004 – 2012  Architect – Defleur & Therssen Architects – Belgium.

Management  and  execution of architectural projects. Coordination with customers and stakeholders, e.g. government entities, contractors, builders, masons etc.

2004 – 2010   Teacher – ASBL Boulot, Belgium.

Non-for-profit organisation providing instruction in French, Mathematics and Construction/ Design Technique. Daily administrative support to the organization.

1996 – 2002   Architect – Art&Build – Sigma 3 – O Noterman, Belgium.

Management and delivery of architectural projects.

 

 

 

 

William Boissevain was born in New York in 1927 his father was in the diplomatic service and consequently the family travelled the world. He trained in both London and Paris.

He was influenced by some of the greatest painters in European modern history such as Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and Matisse, Boissevain recollects the time he spent wandering the vast corridors of the Louvre, studying works by such masterful artists. His drawings reflect the precision and skill of the great French masters while also embedded with the spontaneity of colour, line, and form.

After WW11 in 1947, Boissevain decided to join his mother in Perth, who like many postwar migrants had emigrated to Australia. He was naturalised in 1949. From 1951 to 1955 he taught drawing and French at Wesley College in Perth and, later he taught art at Perth Technical College.

The worldwide influences Boissevain experienced as a child can be seen in his bird and flower studies and his evocative Australian landscapes which have an almost oriental beauty.

In 1959 he won the Claude Hotchin Art Prize. Claude Hotchin was a businessman and art dealer who had a residence “Chartwell Gardens” in Mundaring.

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In 1967, Jack and Marcia Harrison were introduced to Boissevain by Iwan Iwanoff and commissioned Wim to paint their four year old daughter Jody.

Harrison neighbours, John and Donna Coleman followed suit and had their daughter Lisa painted:

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In 1978 Boissevanwas awarded the Order of the British Empire for ‘Services to the Arts”.

Boissevain’s works are held in Collections across Australia, including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, the Art Gallery of W.A. and the Art Gallery of Tasmania. His works are also held in many important private collections, including King Charles lll, Baroness Bentinck – Switzerland, the Emir of Bahrain and many more prestigious collections.

He lived in various homes in the Shire, first on Old York Road in Greenmount and in the 70’s the bottom of Smith St in Glen Forrest where he also had a studio. In later years he exhibited his work at White Peacock Studios in Glen Forrest.

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Linda Iwanoff by Boissevain

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William Boissevain died in 2023 at the age of 96.

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PUBLICATION

Fry, Gavin, William Boissevain: A Passion for Colour, (The Beagle Press, Sydney, Second Edition 2001).