Dragon de Komodo, 2016

Damien Colcombet  

Bronze with brown patina
Signed and numbered bronze
Barthélémy Art foundry

The youngest of a family of seven children, Damien Colcombet was born in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) in 1967. His maternal family, Huchet, had been from Rennes for generations and included entrepreneurs who had built several streets and squares in the Breton capital1 (rue Hoche, place Hoche, rue de Robien, rue des Fossés, etc.). His paternal family, originally from Lyon and Saint-Étienne, included silk and ribbon makers, the Neyrets. His grandfather and father were agricultural engineers.

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

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

In 2013, on an excursion outside his privileged field 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 offered to Pope Francis.

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

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 his castle can be visited.

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