Martine Lingelser-Schmidt

Born in Burgundy, land of white stone. As a child, she played with the clay in the vines of the Montées de Tonnerre. It was perhaps the beginning of the apprenticeship of modeling that she continued much later - after a career as a school teacher - at the School of Fine Arts in Paris then in Champagne in the Chalonnais workshop of Carlos Carrillo. Many of the models she drew belonged to the circus school. She particularly works on this expression of powerful bodies in motion, clinging to apparatus or suspended in the air, fixed on poles or deformed by acrobatics.

In 2015, she exhibited a series of patinated terracottas around the theme of resilience at the town hall of Paris.

A few collective exhibitions later, in 2022, she exhibited her work at the Recto-Verso gallery, then 2023 at the Feng Shang Gallery in Reims.