Title: The missing part of the Anglars-de-Salers verdures
Format: 140 x 80 cm two times – 140 x 40 two times – 55 ” x 31 ” two times – 55 ” x 16 ” two times
Weight: 6,000 g two times – 3,000 g two times – 6 lb 1 oz two times – 13 lb 11 oz two times
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: A fresh look at the textiles
used in tapestry at Chaise-Dieu
Format: 200 x 300 cm – 78,7” x 236”, two-sided
Weight: 23,2 kg – 53 lb 4 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 of the exhibition #FITE 2020 La Chaise-Dieu Abbey France
Photographs of the exhibition #FITE 2020 Clermont-Ferrand France
Title: A fresh look at the textiles…Season 2
Format: 140 x 80 cm two times – 140 x 40 two times – 55 ” x 31 ” two times – 55 ” x 16 ” two times
Weight: 6,000 g two times – 3,000 g two times – 6 lb 1 oz two times – 13 lb 11 oz two times
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
2 times 700 pieces and 2 times 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: Plural
Format: 285 x 269 cm – 112″ x 106″
Weight: 3,830 g – 8 lb 16 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.
Titel: Log cabin light show
Format : 218 x 186 cm – 86” x 73”
Weight: 2980 g – 6 lb 13 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.
Thaw series
Semagram series
Moments series
Running water series
Five squares series
Time and Space series
Circles series
Alhambra series
Other works 2015 …
Other works 2009 – 2013
Collaborative projects
