Bronze Sculpture for Sale
France
• 1977
Biography
Émilie Bontoux, Hidocq, born May 25, 1977 in the North of France.
I started to work in communication and marketing where disappointed not to be able to express my sensitivity and the real possibility of creating, I launched into what was buried in me: art.
I need the volume, the material to express myself: clay attracts me by its plasticity! I then trained with a ceramist from the region, in filming and with the Art School of Douai in internships as well as with other ceramists or potters. Very quickly, I open my workshop and it is every day that my hands in the material and sometimes faced with questions that I really learn my job.
In this one, I try to constantly explore this incredible matter that is clay. With a preference for porcelain which by its purity, its lightness and its memory of imprints and shapes fascinates me.
My approach is also to transform the material and take it into different universes, to try to push its limits but also mine.
The world around me and nature are sources of inspiration for me, as are words, literature and poetry.
In this work, I bring to light all my emotions and thoughts on our human condition, our fears, our concerns, our questions about the world.
To want to put poetry, emotion, joy in what I undertake and thus be able to trigger in the other an emotion which passes first and simply by the look or by the touch of the material is undoubtedly the quest for my job.
Exhibitions
- Expo at Acid Gallery in Lille, in April 2019 with other artists.
- Art Therapy workshop from 2015 to 2019 with Alzheimer's patients.
- Lessons for children and adults at the workshop.
- Roubaix Swimming Pool Museum speaker from 2017 to 2019
- Exhibitions at Christian Bontoux Encadrements in 2017 with painters.
- Open days for artists' studios in 2016
- Steenwerck Ceramic Biennale in May 2015
- Exhibition of the nest box at the Roubaix Swimming Pool Museum as part of the competition launched by the Douai Art School in March 2014
- WCC.BF World Crafts Council of Mons Europe in January 2014
- Douai Art School in October 2014 as part of the "Le Nichoir" competition
- Exhibition at the Nuits des Arts in Roubaix at Besquare, boulevard Jean Baptiste Lebas, in May 2013
- Exhibition at the Ferme d'en Haut Villeneuve d'Ascq with Christine Depuidt, Calligraphist in November 2009
- Exhibition with several painters and photographers at Bontoux Christian Encadrements in May 2010
- Training
- internships at Patrick Deseur - enameling
- Internships Tournai Art School in Belgium
- 1 year training at Virginie Besengez - turning and modeling
- Training and internships Douai Art School modeling and oxides internships.
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