Ornélie is a French artist, figurative sculptor, drawing animator, born in 1983. After graduating from Gobelins animation school, she works as a 2D animator on feature films, and she is a self-taught sculptor. Through her feminine characters, she develops her personal universe, often surreal and romantic, sometimes dark and strange. By playing with the codes of the curiosity cabinet, her sculptures are paths towards her dreams of fantasized part eras, as much as her gothic and victorian visions.
All her artworks are strictly one-of-a-kind, totally handmade with polymer clay (including fabrics and laces), except glass bubbles and insects.
She currently lives in Dinan, Brittany.
Ornélie est une artiste française, sculptrice figurative, dessinatrice d’animation, née en 1983. Après son diplôme de “Création et conception de films d’animation” à l’école des Gobelins, elle travaille en tant qu’animatrice sur des longs métrages, et fait de la sculpture en autodidacte. A travers ses créatures féminines, elle développe son univers personnel, souvent surréaliste et romantique, parfois sombre et étrange. 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 originales, réalisées à la main, intégralement en pâte polymère (y compris les tissus et les dentelles), exceptés les bulles en verre et les insectes.
Elle vit actuellement à Dinan en Bretagne.
EXHIBITIONS
2025/04
(upcoming) “Dreamland awaits” group show, curated by Beautiful Bizarre, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles
2024/11
(upcoming) “Paracosmic escape” group show, curated by Beautiful Bizarre, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco
2024/10
(upcoming) 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
(current) 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
2024
2nd prize winner sculpture award of the 2024 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize
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
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
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