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Biography

It all could have started with an art school, but no!

My journey began with studies in financial markets, in London and Ningbo, followed by a career in international trade and digital marketing in Hong Kong and Paris.

One day, a family coincidence led me to the Parisian studio of the sculptor Magali Nourissat. This hands-on abstraction immediately ignited a true passion in me. I love the endless possibilities of working with clay to capture the most genuine emotion and cast it in bronze.

It's in the tales and fables, carriers of moral education, that I find my main inspiration. Their imaginative power and emotional influence have therapeutic virtues to navigate through the ages and existential doubts. I see them as a form of return to the earliest visual narratives.

In my work, I enjoy playing on a fine line at the border of two worlds, that of Man and the animal, to reveal both the beastly side of Man and the human side of the animal.

You can find my work on Rise Art and Art Majeur.

Photo de l'artiste sculptrice Joelle Buard dans son atelier entrain de se préparer à sculpter

Exhibitions & Prizes

Formation

2025
Upcoming – National Exhibition of Animal Artists (SNAA) – Bry-sur-Marne, November 15 to December 14

Upcoming – Selected by the Jacques BOITIAT Academy to participate in the 59th Grand Prix of BARBIZON – October 11 to 19

Metamorphoses Exhibition – Clos des Roses, Fréjus – July 4 to September 30

Exhibition – Les Greniers à Sel, Honfleur – May 1 to 8

Intuition Exhibition – Carré des Coignard, Nogent-sur-Marne – March 13 to 30

Art Capital, Salon des Artistes Français – Grand Palais, Paris – February 18 to 22


2024
Terre & Flamme Fair
 in Rennes/Chantepie, - October 31 to November 3, 2024
Autumn Salon - Champs Élysées, Paris 8 - October 23 to 27

Art Shopping - Carrousel du Louvre, Paris 1- 18 au 20 octobre

Biennial of Animal Sculpture and Painting in Rambouillet - October 12 to 17, 2024
Expo4Art - Halle des Blancs Manteaux, Paris 4 - September 27 to 29

Finalist for creating a sculpture in the town square of Château Thierry
International Arts Fair at the Nesle Gallery in Paris 6th - May 23 to 26, 2024
1st Prize in Sculpture awarded by the AEAF 

Biennial of Sculpture in Voisins-le-Bretonneux - March 2 to 17, 2024
Art Capital, Salon des Artistes Français at the Grand Palais in Paris - February 2024
Autumn Salon at the Grandes Halles de la Villette in Paris - January 2024


2023
National Salon of Animal Artists in Bry-sur-Marne - November to December 2023
 

2022
'Jury's Favorite' Award from ArtCertificate for the Figurative Art 2022 contest

“Boire de l’art” exhibition, a sculpture/wine pairing in collaboration with the Vino Sapiens cellars in Paris - June 2022
 

2018

Exhibition and competition  “Dissonances” at the Oeil du Huit gallery in Paris - July 2018
 

Florence Academy of Art - Ecorché Sculpture with Maudie Brady - July 2022

Ecole du Louvre - Introductory course in art history - 2021 to 2023
Classes at the Ateliers Beaux-Arts of Montparnasse - Live model with Emilie Benoist - 2018 to 2020
Classes with sculptor Magali Nourissat - since January 2018

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