About

Darcey Fleming is mid-air, jumping over a large hay bale in an open grassy field with a cloudy sky backdrop.

Darcey Fleming (b.2000) is an artist working in London and West Berkshire. She works across sculpture, photography, video, drawing and writing. She is currently an artist in residence on the Lee Alexander Mcqueen Sarabande Foundation.

Education

  • University College London BSc Social Sciences (2020-2023)

  • The London School of Economics and Political Sciences MSc (2023-2025)

Residencies

  • Lee Alexander Mcqueen Sarabande Foundation (2023-2024)

  • Lee Alexander Mcqueen Sarabande Foundation (2024-2025) (second year awarded)

  • Selfridges, two-day residency (2025)

Collections

  • Givenchy, Maison Montaigne, Paris

  • Tim Marlow (OBE), private collection

  • Soho Farmhouse, art collection

  • Alice Black, personal collection

  • Trino Verkade, personal collection

  • Chelsea Barracks, The Collectors House, acquired by Spinocchia Freund

  • Selfridges, private collection

Exhibitions

  • Design Museum x Shenzhen Culture Square, ‘A Century of Chairs’

  • Echo Soho Art Fair, (2025)

  • Firefly Festive Forest Project, Sotheby’s (2026) upcoming

  • London College of Fashion, pop-up exhibition (2025)

  • The Royal Society of Sculptors, Sculpture Terrace (2025)

  • Sarabande Foundation, ‘Pinpoint’ group show (2025)

  • Saatchi Gallery, commissioned artist for The Saatchi Gallery Chelsea Flower Show Garden, sponsored by HSBC (2025)

  • WOW!House, The Curator’s Room, Stark x Spinocchia Freund (2025)

  • East London Art Prize shortlist exhibition, Nunnery Gallery (2025)

  • Aesop, an installation for Chelsea in Bloom (2025)

  • Kensington Roof Gardens x Sarabande Foundation, House of Bandits (2025)

  • Selfridges, window and instore (2025)

  • Sarabande Foundation, ‘A place: Part 2...stay longer’ group show (2024)

  • Sarabande Foundation, ‘Earth Monsters’ group show (2024)

  • Sarabande Foundation, House of Bandits exhibition, 5 Carlos Place, Mayfair, (2024)

  • MK Gallery, ‘MK Calling’ (2024)

  • Parlour London, ‘In the Pink’ group show. Curated by Stephanie Ruth. (2023)

  • Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition (2023)

  • Gallery No.32, ‘Winter Sculpture Park’ (2023)

Awards

  • Bow Arts, East London Art Prize shortlist (2025)

Commissions

  • Sarabande Foundation, performance for Sarabande Fundraiser, The Standard Hotel (2025) upcoming

  • Givenchy, Maison Montaigne, Paris (2025)

  • Firefly Festive Forest Project, Sotheby’s (2026) upcoming

  • The Saatchi Gallery RHS Chelsea Flower Show Garden, sponsored by HSBC (2025)

  • WOW!House, The Curator’s Room, Stark x Spinocchia Freund (2025)

  • Art Invasions powered by Porsche at White City House, (2024)

  • Soho Farmhouse, commissioned by Kate Bryan to make the largest work in the Soho House art collection (2024)

  • Pirelli Calender, commissioned to make two wearable sculptures to be worn by activist and poet Amanda Gorman for Pirelli Calender (2024)

  • W Magazine, commissioned to make four wearable sculptures for W Magazine (2023)

  • V&A Emerging Designer Commission, (2024) shortlisted

Talks & Workshops

  • Royal Society of Sculptors, Darcey Fleming in conversation - Sculpture Terrance Series (2025) upcoming

  • "The Collector’s House", ‘Using collectable art and design to define a space’. Roundtable discussion with Tim Marlow (OBE) and Brigitta Freund (2025)

  • Artist Talk to HSBC clients for Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea Flower Show (2025)

  • Artist Talk to Trinity Bridge clients for Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea Flower Show (2025)

  • East London Art Prize, Bow arts, participatory weaving workshop (2025)

  • Kate Bryan and Darcey Fleming in conversation, at Tramp London for Frieze week, Sponsored by Givenchy and Margin (2024)

  • Kate Bryan and Darcey Fleming in conversation, ‘Meet your new art collection’, Soho Farmhouse (2024)

  • Guest Lecturer, on Art Foundation course (2022-2024)

Magazines

  • Cinema du Look Magazine 2025

  • Harper’s Bazaar UK February 2025

  • Plaster Magazine 2024

  • Pirelli Calendar 2024

  • Acne Papers issue 19 2024

  • Luncheon Magazine issue 17 2024

  • Print Publication 2024

  • Harper's Bazaar UK Art Issue October 2024

  • W Magazine Volume Two 2023: The Directors Issue

  • The Times Newspaper June 2023

  • The Telegraph Newspaper June 2023

  • TANK Magazine 2023

  • Vogue Portugal 20th Anniversary Issue 2022

  • Vogue Scandinavia 2022

  • Exit Magazine Spring/ Summer 2022 Magazine cover

  • Altered States Magazine Issue 5 Volume 1 Spring / Summer 2023

  • Parco Campaign Spring / Summer 2022

Published writings

  • Sarabande Foundation, ‘Pinpoint’ (2024), ‘Untitled’ poem as the curatorial text

  • Sarabande Foundation, ‘A place: Part 2...stay longer’ (2024), ‘The Gap’ Poem as the curatorial text