Fine art illustration

Before coming to the UK and studying illustration, I graduated as an architect in Paris. I developed craft skills that allowed me to work as a model-maker in various architecture and set design companies in order to support my debuts as a freelance illustrator. This joy of making has naturally merged into my illustration practice, and over the years I have developed a portfolio of bespoke, unique, intricate fine art pieces such as illustrated models, pop-ups and collages. Through my residency at the Pervasive Media Studio and the study of various immersive technologies, I want to explore how to enhance the sensory aspect of my illustrated artworks, outside of screens and expensive devices, and offer a potential for magical material escapes.

PROCESS

Most of the materials I used is made out of recycling my own scraps of illustration projects. Over the years working as an illustrator I have accumulated a fair amount of paper residues. I find them beautiful and enjoy turning them into analogue collages and models, like a desk-sized circular creative economy…

EXHIBITED WORK

Places and events I have exhibited at include:

No Format Gallery (London), Âme Nue Gallery (Hamburg), ITAR Architectures (Paris), Arc-en-Rêve (Bordeaux), Pavillon de l’Arsenal (Paris), Centre d’Animation Bercy (Paris), Librairie Volume (Paris), ELCAF (London), Free World Centre (London), Coffee + Beer (Bristol)

Conferences and events I have been a guest/speaker at include:

Friday lunchtime talk at the Pervasive Media Studio (Bristol), Migration and the Transnational City (University of London Institute in Paris),  Graphic Medicine (Brighton and Sussex Medical School), Laydeez do Comics (Bristol and London), La Nuit des Idées: Facing our time (French Institute, London), Transitions 8, New Directions in Comic Studies (Birkbeck Universtity, London), Architectures Dérivées (National Architecture School of Brittany, Rennes) 

DROIT DE CITE

Series of hand-drawn illustrations for Paris-based architecture practice Secousses.

ITAR ARCHITECTURE

Series of hand-drawn illustrations for Paris-based architecture practice ITAR, exhibited at Âme Nue Gallery (Hamburg), ITAR Architectures (Paris).

L’ESPACE DU DEBAT

Series of hand-made and hand-drawn pop-ups for an exhibition in Arc-en-Rêve (Bordeaux), Pavillon de l’Arsenal (Paris). Photos by Massé photographie.