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Hélène Soubeyran was born in 1943 in Paris. In 1974, she left Paris, with her children, for Drôme where she created in La Paillette-Montjoux, Pays de Dieulefit, her dyeing-sculpture workshop. Strongly inspired by a tie-dyed textile that her father brought her from Cameroon, she launches out, experiments, innovates. She manipulates textiles and papers, which she folds to irrigate colors, create patterns and volumes. She then sells her artisanal production on the markets. At the same time, she does research on artistic dyeing in French and American museums, meets curators and artists. In 1981, the Conservation of the Departmental Castles of Drôme offered him to exhibit in Grignan, Montelimar and Suze-la-Rousse, and to collaborate in the selection of pieces from museums and American artists for the exhibition Lié Délié, la teinture on reserve, traditional and contemporary art. In 1985, she continued her museographic research by going into the field, meeting African, Indian and Japanese dyers with whom she exchanged traditional and innovative techniques, in their workshops or during international symposiums of the World Shibori Network. In France and abroad, she exhibits her works, teaches her practice, gives lectures on her artistic approach and her exchanges with dyers. In the meantime, in his studio, his folds animate textile and paper forms that unfold in the wind, or between the fingers of other designers. Coated with earth, they mummify, become strata that it deforms and freezes by petrifying them. In 1991, she discovered the petrified forest in Arizona. She then feels a vital impetus which pushes her to take the next step in her creation: to collect all the works that she has created and exhibited in the past, to stratify them chronologically in the form of a block. From then on, a long road of geological creation began, which she called: "From the Breath of the Earth". In 1997, the stratigraphic block was sawn in marble, in the form of plates, pillars, thin blades and fragments. Since 2001, various cup installations have been carried out outdoors and indoors, inspired by the exhibition venues: parks, museums, halls and exhibition halls, in France and abroad.
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Hélène Soubeyran was born in 1943 in Paris. In 1974, she left Paris, with her children, for Drôme where she created in La Paillette-Montjoux, Pays de Dieulefit, her dyeing-sculpture workshop. Strongly inspired by a tie-dyed textile that her father brought her from Cameroon, she launches out, experiments, innovates. She manipulates textiles and papers, which she folds to irrigate colors, create patterns and volumes. She then sells her artisanal production on the markets. At the same time, she does research on artistic dyeing in French and American museums, meets curators and artists. In 1981, the Conservation of the Departmental Castles of Drôme offered him to exhibit in Grignan, Montelimar and Suze-la-Rousse, and to collaborate in the selection of pieces from museums and American artists for the exhibition Lié Délié, la teinture on reserve, traditional and contemporary art. In 1985, she continued her museographic research by going into the field, meeting African, Indian and Japanese dyers with whom she exchanged traditional and innovative techniques, in their workshops or during international symposiums of the World Shibori Network. In France and abroad, she exhibits her works, teaches her practice, gives lectures on her artistic approach and her exchanges with dyers. In the meantime, in his studio, his folds animate textile and paper forms that unfold in the wind, or between the fingers of other designers. Coated with earth, they mummify, become strata that it deforms and freezes by petrifying them. In 1991, she discovered the petrified forest in Arizona. She then feels a vital impetus which pushes her to take the next step in her creation: to collect all the works that she has created and exhibited in the past, to stratify them chronologically in the form of a block. From then on, a long road of geological creation began, which she called: "From the Breath of the Earth". In 1997, the stratigraphic block was sawn in marble, in the form of plates, pillars, thin blades and fragments. Since 2001, various cup installations have been carried out outdoors and indoors, inspired by the exhibition venues: parks, museums, halls and exhibition halls, in France and abroad.

When was Hélène Soubeyran born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1943