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.
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 –
https://www.911memorial.org/profile/2196691
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.
