Title: La part manquante des verdures d’Anglars-de-Salers
The missing part of the Anglars-de-Salers verdures
Format: Eight panels each 55 x 80 cm – 1ft 10 in x 2ft 11 in
Weight: Eight panels each 0.990 g – 2 lb 3 oz
Date: 2020 – 2022
No. 222.2022.6
Technique: Felt rectangles wrapped with silk and cotton selvedges
266 pieces
Description: Artistic residency in Auvergne at the School of Pedagogical Innovation in Saint-Bonnet-de-Salers and at the Pays de Mauriac media library
workshops « A fresh look at the textiles used at massif central Auvergne France »
textiles chosen following the workshops on the colorimetry of the tapestries of the château de la Trémolière
Collaborative project with 85 young participants and 20 adults
FITE Festival International des Textiles Extraordinaires 2022
Edging donated by sponsors Denis & Fils
Title: Regards textiles sur les tapisseries de la Chaise-Dieu
A fresh look at the textiles used in tapestry at Chaise-Dieu
Format: 200 x 300 cm – 6ft 7in x 9ft 10in, two-sided
Weight: 23.200 g – 51 lb 2 oz
Date: 2019- 2020
No. 209.2020.1
Technique: 864 polyester rectangles covered with fabric, with silk and cotton edging then wound around them
Descriptif: art residency, Joint Syndicate of the Chaise-Dieu Project for the International Festival of Extraordinary Textiles (FITE)
A collaborative project to foster dialogue among inhabitants and their textile heritage. With 75 participants, two 2m x 3m panels were produced, to rework the composition of tapestries for the Chaise-Dieu Abbey choir. Created at workshops focussing on the colours on either side of early 16th-century tapestries.
Edging donated by sponsors Denis & Fils
Photographs #FITE 2020 La Chaise-Dieu Abbey France
Photographs #FITE 2020 Clermont-Ferrand France
Title: Regards textiles… saison 2
A fresh look at the textiles…Season 2
Format: Two columns, each 140 x 80 cm – 4ft 7in x 2 ft 8in, and two columns, each 140 x 40 cm – 4ft 7in x 1ft 4in
Weight: Two columns, each 6.000 g – 13 lb 1 4 oz, and columns, each 3.000 g, 6 lb 10 oz
Date: 2020 – 2022
No. 222.2022.6
Technique: from felt rectangles rolled with silk and cotton selvedges in 2020, assembly of triangular prisms with a hole to allow the installation of hollow tubes
two pilars 700 pieces and two pilars 350 pieces
Description: The imagined missing part of the pillars of the cloister of La Chaise-Dieu: season 2 of the project « A fresh look at the textiles used in tapestry at Chaise-Dieu », an exceptional heritage of 14 tapestries from the beginning of the 16th century
Collaborative project with 25 young participants and 17 adults from La Chaise-Dieu and Allègre to extend the dialogue between the inhabitants and their textile heritage and to approach volume
FITE Festival International des Textiles Extraordinaires 2022
Edging donated by sponsors Denis & Fils
Title: Pluriel
Plural
Format: 285 x 269 cm – 9ft 4in x 8ft 10in
Weight: 3.830 g – 8 lb 1 oz
Date: 2006 – 2010
No. 145.2010.13
Technique: blocks of 49 squares, 3 x 3 cm and textile strips
hand-assembled, hand-quilted
12.214 fragments
Description: to provide the raw material for the creative output of over a hundred participants, nearly 15,000 squares of fabric were cut out. During this collective return to the roots of quilting, everyone was invited to compose 7 x 7 square blocks.
The creation explores vibrations produced by tiny squares and plays around with different scales.
Quilting that forms squares to bolster the identity of each block.
Title: Log cabin light show
Format : 218 x 186 cm – 7ft 2in x 6ft 1in
Weight: 2.980 g – 6 lb 9 oz
Date: 2002 – 2005
No. 105.2005.1
Technique: 56 blocks of concentric strips, assembled by hand onto a background fabric
Once they had been hand-sewn, photographs were taken of each block. These photos were then sorted on a computer to produce several variants of the original layout, by rotating or shifting blocks across.
The variant achieving the most stability and vibrations was then chosen.
Description: inspired by a Dutch quilt dating from 1860, this collective work involved 28 participants who produced two similar blocks, deploying highly variable levels of dexterity.
Fascinated by the sheer force and modernity of this Dutch quilt dating from 1860, I copied each block step by step, to grasp its components: graphics, colour, composition and pace. And so:
The main squares are either concentric, or laid out according to a diagonal pattern.
There are between 8 and 11 concentric strips, depending on how dexterous and perseverant the participants were.
Fabric stockouts also caused a few quirks in the design.
Selected in Paducah KY-USA in 2006.
Series:
Seasons
Dawn
Thaw
Magma
Semagram
Moments
Running Water
Skin of the world
Five squares
Time and Space
Circles
Alhambra
Other works 2015 …
Other works 2009 – 2013
Collaborative projects
