| Artist | Ornélie | Resides | France |
| Website | ornelie.com | Medium | Polymer Clay Acrylic Paint |
| Representing Gallery | Naia Museum Rochefort-en Terre, France | ornelie.art@gmail.com | |
| Follow the Artist | Instagram | Facebook | Themes | Women Gothic Surreal Romanticism Victorian Pop |
About the artist
After a solid training at the famous Gobelins animation school in Paris, Ornélie works as a drawing animator on numerous European feature films.
It seems that drawing characters in volume led her quite naturally towards figurative sculpture, that she started to practice as a self-taught artist.
She did her first steps with clay, and recently moved to polymer. By exploring this innovative material she realized that it offered the freedom she was looking for – she can now go where some classical materials did not allow it.
Challenging herself is largely the driving force behind her art.
She currently lives in Dinan, a beautiful medieval town in Brittany, France
Ornélie is the 2nd prize winner of the Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024
Artwork Themes & Subject Matter
At a crossroad between volume and illustration, it is through sculptural portraits of female characters that Ornélie likes to develop an atmosphere often surreal and romantic, sometimes dark and strange. She is influenced as much from classical painting (pre-Raphaelite, romantic, art nouveau, surrealism, pop art), as from comics and illustration, cinema, animation, and literature.
By playing on the codes of the cabinet of curiosity, her sculptures are paths towards her dreams of fantasized eras, as many Gothic and Victorian visions.
All her artworks are strictly one-of-a-kind, totally handmade with polymer clay, including fabrics, laces and eyes, and hand-painted.
Press
Ornélie’s sculptures had been featured in notable magazines and books including Beautiful Bizarre Magazine issues 45 & 47, Artbook for the next generations, 20th anniversary “Les Arts ludiques” museum, Art and woman book, Arts to hearts project, 100 Emerging Artists 2024 Women’s Edition, Art to hearts project, Infected By Art, IBA volume 11 & 12, Imagine FX, issue 229, and Art Renewal Center, 16th International ARC Salon book
Upcoming Exhibitions
| When | Exhibition | Gallery |
| November 2024 | Group exhibition: “Paracosmic Escape” curated by Beautiful Bizarre and art direction of Musonium Gallery | Modern Eden Gallery San Francisco, CA. USA |
| April 2025 | Group exhibition: “Dreamland awaits” curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine | Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. USA |
CV
Education
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 India 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
Awards
2024
2nd prize winner Yasha Young Projects Sculpture award of the 2024 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize
Finalist of the Titian portrait competition
2023
3rd place Infected By Art vol. 12 in the sculpture category
Finalist of the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize
2022
Selected for the Lunar codex project
Art Renewal Center “Poets artists art prize”
Prize of Arts of Côtes d’Armor, Brittany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Festival “Court métrange”, Rennes, France
Naia museum, Rochefort-en-terre, France
Art dinan, Abbaye de Léhon, France
Glam, Virtual Exhibition, curated by Alicia Puig for Pxp gallery, online
2023
Sculpture fair “Terre et flamme”, Rennes, France
L’Art est dans la ville, Dinan, France
2016
Muses, collective show with Marietta Ren and Valérie Hadida, Galerie Arludik, Paris, France
