Fleur Spolidor

New Project for the Unforgiving Yardstick

So grateful to receive the support of Arts Council England with a R&D Lottery funded grant to work on my “Unforgiving Yardstick” project. For the next few months I will be researching techniques and materials to come up with a long term, museum grade system to create garments out of measuring tapes. I started this project a couple of years ago but after one year on display in a museum in Rye NY @ryehistory , the system I invented started to give us some problems. I am very thankful to director of programming Natalie Hofstedt and archival researcher Christine Moore for taking such good care of my work as it was falling apart 😅. I can’t wait to find long term solutions to create lasting meaningful artworks.

The Unforgiving Yardstick: A look at women’s roles and struggles in Westchester County

Exhibition March 2025- March 2026 at the Square House Museum, Rye NY, with the support of the Rye Historical Society and a 2024 Arts Alive grant, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts through its Statewide Community Regrant program and administered by Arts Westchester.

The Swimsuits Series: A Pictorial Reflection on Women’s Rights was scheduled to be on display at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City in March 2025, during the 69th Commission on the Status of Women. However, due to the current social and political climate in the United States—particularly the increasing scrutiny and polarization surrounding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives—the exhibition has been canceled.

Previously, the series was successfully exhibited at the European Union Delegation to the United Nations during the 67th Commission on the Status of Women, which focused on “Innovation and Technological Change, and Education in the Digital Age to Achieve Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls.”

In 2023, The Swimsuits Series received an Arts Alive grant funded by the New York State Council on the Arts through its Statewide Community Regrant program, administered by ArtsWestchester. It was also featured at the Jay Heritage Center in Rye, NY, where it was on display from October to November 2023. The opening reception was part of New York State’s Path Through History Weekend on October 7–8, 2023.

In 2015 I started a new body of work called “Alice", in which I overlap the story of Alice in Wonderland with the History of San Francisco, Paris, Amsterdam and New York  to represent the schizophrenic state of these ever changing cities. Each painting of this series tells a piece of the story about our everyday lives. In a sense Alice is you, me, anyone who lives or works in large metropolis and has to adapt or face its challenges.