Ornélie is a French artist, figurative sculptor, born in 1983.
With her training at the Gobelins school in Paris, and her experience in animated cinema as a drawing animator on numerous feature films, she approaches sculpture as an autodidact, at the crossroads between volume and illustration.
In her quest for aesthetics, and through her feminine creatures with a unique style, she develops a universe as surreal as it is romantic, pop and baroque.
Her work is very imbued with her cinema and animation culture, but she also gladly draws her influences from classical painting, literature, and comics.
By playing on the codes of the cabinet of curiosity, her sculptures are as many passages towards his fantasized dreams of eras, as they are of Gothic and Victorian visions.
All her sculptures are unique and original pieces, entirely modeled in polymer clay, including the eyes and insects, as well as fabrics, laces, and embroideries.
In recent years, she has won many art awards (Lunar codex, Beautiful Bizarre, Infected By Art, Art Renewal Center), and her work is the subject of numerous publications.
She exhibits in France and in USA, and she currently lives in Dinan, Brittany.
Ornélie est une artiste française, sculptrice figurative, née en 1983.
Forte de sa formation à l’école des Gobelins à Paris, et de son expérience dans le cinéma d’animation comme dessinatrice sur de nombreux longs métrages, elle aborde la sculpture en autodidacte, à la croisée des chemins entre le volume et l’illustration.
Dans sa quête d’esthétisme, et à travers ses créatures féminines au style unique, elle développe un univers aussi surréaliste que romantique, pop et baroque.
Son travail est très imprégné de sa culture du cinéma et de l’animation, mais elle tire également volontiers ses influences de la peinture classique, de la littérature et de la bande dessinée.
En jouant sur les codes du cabinet de curiosité, ses sculptures sont autant de passages vers ses rêves d’époques fantasmées, que de visions gothiques et victoriennes.
Toutes ses sculptures sont des pièces uniques et originales, intégralement modelées en pâte polymère, y compris les yeux et les insectes, ainsi que les tissus, les dentelles, et les broderies. Ces dernières années, elle a remporté de nombreux prix d’Art (Lunar codex, Beautiful Bizarre, Infected By Art, Art Renewal Center), et son travail fait l’objet de nombreuses publications.
Elle expose en France et aux USA, et vit actuellement à Dinan, en Bretagne.
EXHIBITIONS
End 2026
(Upcoming) Solo show, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2026/04
(Upcoming) 20th gallery anniversary group show, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2026/01
(Upcoming) L.A Art Show, represented by the Rehs Contemporary Gallery from NYC, Los Angeles, CA
2025
(Current) Naia museum 2025/2026 season
2025/10
“Fear to Tread” group show, Nanny Goat Gallery, Petaluma, CA
2025/05
“Dreamland awaits” group show, curated by Beautiful Bizarre, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2025/05
“Art dinan” collective show, Abbaye de Léhon
2024/11
“Paracosmic escape” group show, curated by Beautiful Bizarre, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2024/10
Festival “Court métrange”, Rennes
2024/05
“Art dinan” collective show, Abbaye de Léhon
2024/05
“Glam” Virtual Exhibition, curated by Alicia Puig for Pxp gallery
2024
Naia museum 2024/2025 season
2023/11
Sculpture fair “Terre et flamme”, Rennes
2023/09
L’Art est dans la ville, Dinan
2016/09
“Muses” collective show with Marietta Ren and Valérie Hadida, Galerie Arludik, Paris
2015
Participation in the charity auction ART’ACTION 2015
REWARDS
2025
Juror for the IBA vol. 14 competition
2024
Honorable mention IBA vol. 13 in the sculpture category
2024
2nd prize winner sculpture award of the 2024 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize
2024
Finalist of the Art Renewal Center
2024
Finalist of the Titian portrait competition
2023
3rd place IBA vol. 12 in the sculpture category
2023
Finalist of the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize
2022
Selected for the Lunar codex project
2022
Art Renewal Center “Poets artists art prize”
2022
Prize of Arts of Côtes d’Armor, Brittany
BOOKS
2025
Infected By Art, IBA volume 14, as juror
2024
Infected By Art, IBA volume 13
2024
Artbook for the next generations, 20th anniversary Les Arts ludiques museum
2024
Art and woman book, Arts to hearts project
2024
100 Emerging Artists 2024 Women’s Edition, Art to hearts project
2023
Infected By Art, IBA volume 12
2022
Infected By Art, IBA volume 11
2022
Art Renewal Center, 16th International ARC Salon book
PRESS
2025/09
Polymer week magazine
2025/02
Beautiful Bizarre.net, blog
2025/01
Tattoo Life magazine, issue 152
2024/12
Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, issue 47
2024/06
Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, issue 45
2023/09
Imagine FX, issue 229
EDUCATION
2015
Beginnings of the practice of self-taught sculpture
Since 2010
Work as drawing animator on feature films (Calamity, Tout en haut du monde, My father’s dragon, The song of the sea, The prophet…), and on many series, publicities, pilotes and teasers
2010
Graduated from L’Ecole des Gobelins, “Creation and Conception of animation films”, 2 short films (Monstera Deliciosa, Trois petits points) multi-awarded (Annecy cristal, Grand prize F.I.A.Tokyo, FIFE Maroc, View award Italie, 24FPS Inde etc…)
2006-2007
Life/anatomical drawing lessons with Thomas Wienc at Beaux-Arts de Montparnasse, Paris
2001
Senior technologist’s certificate (BTS) in visual communication, graphic design, publishing, advertising, at l’Ecole de Condé, Paris
1990-2001
Drawing and art history lessons, Atelier Astruc, Montpellier