Courtesy Experimental Arts Foundation, Adelade

Fleur Elise Nobel, still from "Work in Progress" (2008). Filmic drawing installation, demensions variable.

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A puppet dips his head in a bucket of paint before banging his face against a stack of paper repeatedly — leaving a scratchy self-portrait on each sheet; a woman moves across a stage and turns into paper, then unties the puppets and leaves them on the ground. The young Australian artist, puppeteer, and theater director Fleur Elise Noble is both maker and actor in this black-and-white stop-motion film titled Work in Progress, which looks at the process of drawing as performance — an interest shared by William Kentridge and Robin Rhode, whose sweet, old-fashioned draw-then-erase aesthetics aren’t too far from her own. Her film explores the action and theater of making art, or, in her words, the moment when "the studio has become the canvas, set, and stage." 

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"Fleur Elise Noble" originally appeared in the Summer 2009 issue of Modern Painters. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Modern Painters' Summer 2009 Table of Contents.