Girafe tête tournée à gauche, 2021

Damien Colcombet  

Damien COLCOMBET
Giraffe head turned to the left
Bronze with brown patina
signed and numbered n° EA II / IV.
L.25 cm x W.10 cm x H.35 cm
Barthélémy Art Foundry

Damien COLCOMBET

The youngest of seven children, Damien Colcombet was born in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) in 1967. His mother's family, the Huchets, had been in Rennes for generations and included entrepreneurs who had built several streets and squares in the Breton capital (rue Hoche, place Hoche, rue de Robien, rue des Fossés, etc.). His father's family, originally from Lyon and Saint-Étienne, included silk and ribbon manufacturers, the Neyrets. His grandfather and father were agricultural engineers.

He first exhibited at the Din'Art gallery in Brittany, then at the Estades gallery in Lyon. He is now exhibited in about ten venues in France and abroad (Brussels, London, Baden-Baden). In June 2017, the Cristel art center in Saint-Malo dedicated an exhibition to his bronzes, coinciding with the publication of plates from a rare alphabet book by Mathurin Méheut.

In 2012, he permanently left his career in finance and devoted himself exclusively to sculpture.

In 2013, taking a detour from his preferred area of animal art, he created a sculpture of Saint Irenaeus at the request of the Saint-Irénée Foundation in Lyon, a copy of which was given to Pope Francis.

In September 2017, his monumental sculpture representing a life-size giraffe and baby giraffe was installed in the Parc de la Tête d'Or in Lyon, a work financed by patrons and donations from individuals.

In 2023, he produced an enlargement of Rosa Bonheur's Walking Bull for the town of Thomery (Seine-et-Marne), where the artist lived and where you can visit her castle.

Distinctions
2013 Édouard-Marcel Sandoz Prize from the National Exhibition of Animal Artists.