Beanie Aldrett Fleming

About the work

Recuerdos, 2024
earthernware glazed, raku clay, slip
$500

I create art that draws inspiration from my Mexican heritage, using a visual language to express my exploration of cultural identity. I employ the traditional tile form to represent abstracted landscapes of places that hold personal significance to me, like Cerro de San Pedro in Mexico—a small mining town near San Luis Potosi City. In my work, I also incorporate portraits from family photo albums and photographs taken during my past trips.

These personally significant symbols of family, culture, place, and memory are presented within a network of tiles woven together by Mexican beads. The glittering gold threads symbolise connections and place, holding the work together and unifying these separate moments in time into a cohesive whole.

About Beanie Aldrett Fleming

Beanie is a Mexican and English Sydney based visual artist living and working on unceded Gadigal Land.

I make ceramic sculptural representations of the lines that divide my cultural identities merging as a way to explore and express my evolving relationship to my culture. Growing up in Brighton, UK and immigrating to Sydney in 2006, I felt disconnected from my Mexican heritage. In my work I draw upon an evolving visual language, that explores the intersection of myself and the different cultures I belong to.

Top image: Beanie Aldrett Fleming, Recuerdos (detail), 2024. Photo: Courtesy of the Artist.