Thomas Petit sculptor

© Guy Kunz-Jacques

THOMAS PETIT

Born in 1991, lives and works in Angoulême.

Thomas Petit signs his works CPT for Cesto Petit Thomas: Cesto is the name inherited from his Martinican mother, Petit that of his Charente father. As a child, passionate about natural sciences and paleontology, he created a museum in the family home in Angoulême.

After preparing a BEP in architecture at the Sillac high school, Thomas went to Creuse to train as a stonemason at the Felletin professional building trades high school. He did his apprenticeship in Marc Deligny's workshop, first located in Villejésus near Aigre, then in Tusson in Charente: specializing in ornamental sculpture, this workshop works as much for the private sector as for historic monuments. After his CAP Thomas will continue to improve his skills there.

In 2010, at the age of 18, he made his first major trip to Guyana: there, between Cayenne and Saint-Georges de l’Oyapock, in the heart of the Amazonian forest, he was fascinated by the power of plants and the diversity of insects that would later inspire him (2014-15) to create his giant “membracides”.

In 2014, he backpacked through Burma, northern Thailand and Cambodia. Visiting the Angkor site, he admired the architecture of the temples and the immense program of Khmer sculptures in relief and bas-relief, never tired of drawing the monumental heads of the Bayon and the graceful apsaras in his sketchbook.

In 2016, working with Marc Deligny on a construction site in Sainte-Maxime, Italy not being far away, he went to Carrara, visited the marble quarries, bought tools. In the spring, as part of the “Pierres en dédale” residency in Montendre, in Charente maritime, he created his first large sculpture which evokes a labyrinth. In September, winner of the Charentaise Foundation Les Tricoles, he undertook, in the hamlet of La Brousse, near Sers, a sculpture of 3 meters by 4 in the limestone cliff above the Échelle stream. The sculpture represents "Marianne", whose hair intertwines the artistic emblems of the various continents (including, for Africa, a Kota reliquary figure from Gabon): Thomas thus pays homage to the cultural diversity and to the artists of the Solutrean who, 23,000 years ago, sculpted not far away, at the Roc de Sers, the famous parietal frieze representing horses, ibex, a bison and a human figure, preserved at the National Archaeology Museum in St-Germain-en-Laye.

In February 2017, Thomas went to Dakar, Senegal. There he first met the sculptor Oumar Pouye, a stone sculptor established on the corniche. He stayed for a while at the Village des Arts, located in Yoff on the road to the old airport, which has around fifty workshops and a permanent gallery named after Léopold Sédar Senghor: painters such as Amadou Dieng and Kara Fall welcomed him there fraternally. He sculpted an untitled work in basalt, left on site.

In the summer of 2017, Thomas joined the “Lapidiales”, an open-air sculptors’ workshop created by Alain Tenenbaum in a complex of cliffs and quarries located between Port-d’Envaux and Crazannes, in Charente-Maritime, which offers a unique space for expression to artists from all walks of life. Thomas sculpted a jaguar-man in the round, paying homage to Native American culture. Some time later, shortly before Christmas, Thomas flew to Mexico where he spent two months, invited to the first edition of the Tepeji del Rio stone sculpture festival, in the province of Idalgo: hosted in residence with six other sculptors in a former textile factory, he represented in the local travertine a "tzitzimime", a female star demon in Aztec mythology, and took advantage of his stay to visit the great pre-Columbian temples of Tula and Teotihuacan.

In October 2018, the Burkinabe sculptor Siriki Ky invited him to come to Burkina Faso and participate in the Sculpture Symposium that he created on the site of Laongo, about thirty kilometers from the capital Ouagadougou: it is a granite site that extends over several hectares, which over the years has become a meeting place for international sculptors working according to their inspiration on the rocks that stretch out before them as far as the eye can see. Thomas attacks a fragmentary head with a chisel, half woman, half mask, entitled “Return to Africa”. Thomas sympathizes with different sculptors, including the Kanak Handjing Pagou Banehote. With the bronze artisans who work for Siriki Ky, he familiarizes himself with the technique of lost wax casting and models a pair of bronze eyes for his sculpture. At the end of the residency, Thomas will stay an additional month in Burkina: at the Ouaga Arts Center, he learns to make a djembe (because Thomas is also a musician) and begins to make his first bronze under the supervision of the bronze worker Abdoulaye Kaboré entitled "masque-oiseau".

During 2019, Thomas works for the company of the Romanian-born sculptor restorer, Viorel Enache, on the restoration of one of the pediments of the Louvre Palace, controlled by the M.H. In August-September, he creates for the Saxifraga association, in the middle of the Jardin Vert, a "Daphné" which is today the property of the City of Angoulême.

During the sterile period of confinement, in 2020, he sets up a new workshop in a property belonging to English friends, located in the Anguienne valley. Among his works, and in his tiny home, above the workshop, one can admire Lobi statues brought back from Burkina Faso, Naga ethnographic pieces from north-east India and objects from Sepik (Papua New Guinea).

In 2021, as part of an artistic journey on the theme of the Vine and the Marsh, he created a large sculpture, the “Crocodile Woman” (2.40 x 80), precisely in Vix-en-Vendée, between Fontenayle-Comte and Marans, the homeland of Gaston Chaissac: this work illustrates the mythical metamorphosis of the animal into man (the crocodile was present in this region several million years ago!). The same year, Thomas took part in the collective exhibition at the Angoulême Museum (“Dialogues”) and participated in the International Sculpture Symposium in Măciuca, Romania, where, from a ten-ton block of marble, he created “Éclosion sinueuse” (1m80 x 1m70) in the name of the union of Peoples and Peace, which he will complete in 2022.

Following a hand accident (a constant risk in the tough profession of statuary!), Thomas learned engraving techniques with the painter and engraver Gérard Jullien, a former professor at the Angoulême School of Fine Arts, and produced a beautiful series of prints featuring his favorite themes, which allowed him to approach his art from a different angle.

In 2022, his hand having healed, Thomas returned to monumental sculpture: invited by Hervé Beuze, a visual artist from Martinique and professor at the Campus Caribéen in Fort-de-France, he worked there for two weeks with students, carried out geological surveys with them in the Prêcheur and St-Pierre regions, in the north of the island, and carved large volcanic blocks (andesite and basalt). Before leaving for Martinique, Thomas organized a bronze casting for the first time with Herman Yamaogo, a bronze sculptor from Koudougou whom he met in Chambord. He then cast his first pieces in the workshop. A few months later (July), he did it again this time with Abdoulaye Kaboré, with whom he became friends in 2018 at the Ouagadougou Symposium, by organizing a workshop at the Jesuits open to half a dozen sculptors. The same year, he exhibited his work at Château-d’Oléron, at the L’Escale gallery, alongside a Colombian painter, and in Aubusson on the occasion of the 25th Aproart exhibition. In December, he found himself in Guadeloupe to participate in the first symposium on local stone sculpture organized by the Zévallos association on the site of the Zévallos dwelling in Le Moule (Grande-Terre) at the instigation of the artist François Piquet in homage to the poet Edouard Glissant and his philosophy of the "Tout-Monde": Thomas created a large sculpture in tuff from Ste-Anne, "Lambi Evolution" (2.50 x 1.80 x 1.50 m), which remained on site.

A few weeks later, back in mainland France, he took part in a videoconference organized by the Lamentin library and the Mélanges Caraïbes association (culture, philosophy, art, music)... The year 2023 was marked by three major exhibitions: "Clin d'oeil aux Lapidiales" in Archingeay (Charente maritime), in a private space; “From fiber to stone” in the company of Zimbabwean sculptors at the Moulin de la Pierre in Villehonneur; finally in Bourcefranc, in Charente Maritime, with the metal sculptor Zarco…

In March-April 2024, Thomas travels to Zimbabwe to participate in Rickson Zavaré's workshop with nine other sculptors (one French, two Danish and six Zimbabwean sculptors): this stay will allow him to visit all the high places of Shona sculpture in Zimbabwe (whose name means "great stone dwelling"), to admire the texture and color variations of the local serpentine and to create several sculptures in this material such as "Free movement", in green opal stone (90 cm x 45 x 25 cm) and "Authentic whitness", in springstone (55 x 25 x 20 cm), which will be exhibited at the National Gallery in Harare. After this particularly enriching experience, he took part in the exhibition “Blaye en état d’art” in June, presenting his work at the “Villa Rose” under the aegis of a Parisian gallery, the Galerie Cyril Guerini, rue Visconti, then created an installation during the Journée Chimèrik organized by the Renc’Arts association in Vix in Vendée. In September, he took part in the Ploubalzanec Sculpture Symposium (Côtes du Nord), then in October, returned to Burkina Faso to take part in the Laongo International Stone Sculpture Symposium, during which he created “Triangulation culturelle Rhizome”, in granite and bronze (3.80 x 3.80 m)… In November, he took part, this time as an engraver, in the exhibition “La Gravure en France et en Charente” organized by the town hall of Salles-Lavalette in conjunction with the Angoulême Museum and Art Library. Finally, in December, with his friend Abdoulaye Kaboré, he organized a new residency on bronze casting at the Jesuits.

Proud of his African, Caribbean and Gallic roots, a global citizen, Thomas perfectly embodies the philosophy of the "Tout-Monde" dear to Édouard Glissant, that of the happy interpenetration of cultures and imaginations.

Étienne Féau

Thomas PETIT's work is part of an infinite quest for knowledge, forms and materials. Born into a family with roots in the Caribbean, Charente and Brittany, and driven from an early age by a quest to understand the mechanisms of life, nature has become a veritable playground for him. The themes of nature and human diversity are among his main sources of inspiration.

Artistic and professional career:

• Residency and organization of bronze casting in the workshop in Angoulême with colleague Abdoulaye Kaboré, November and December 2024
• Collective engraving exhibition, organized with the sponsorship of the Artothèque d’Angoulême in Salle la Valette, in Charente, November 2024
• International Symposium of granite sculpture in Laongo, Burkina Faso, October 2024
• Stone sculpture symposium in Ploubalzanec in Brittany, September 2024
• Exhibition Animation sculpture course at Lapidiales, Port d’Envaux, July 2024 (active on introductory courses in stone work since 2016 each year).
• Exhibition "Chimérik", organized by the Renc-Art association, in Vix, June 2024
• Exhibition "Blaye en Etats d'Art" Edition 2024 Presentation at the Villa Rose under the aegis of the Cyril Guerini gallery, June.
• Residency/Symposium/Exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare, March-April-June 2024
• Book and Art Fair in Puymoyen (Charente), February 2024
• Exhibition Galerie Margeurite, Aubeterre-sur-Drônne, 2023
• Exhibition Sculpture, 7 sculptors Bourcefranc (17), 2023
• Exhibition “Le Burck s’illumine” (Mérignac, 33700), 2023
• Festival “Echall’Art” (16170), 2023
• Exhibition “From fiber to stone”, Moulin de la pierre, Villehonneur (16220), 2023
• Exhibition “Clin d’Oeil aux Lapidiales”, Archingeay (17380), 2023
• Exhibition Ascension de L’Art, Aubeterre-sur-Drônne (16390), 2023
• Conference “statuary and representation of history in public space”, organized by Mélanges Caraïbes, 2023
• Sculpture symposium in Zevallos, Guadeloupe 2022
• Group show, "25 ème Salon d'art APROART", Aubusson 2022
• Exhibition at Galerie l'Escale, Château d'Oléron (17), 2022
• Workshop probing and cutting volcanic rocks, at the Campus Caraïbéen des Arts de Fort de France ( Martinique) 2022
• Maciuca International Marble Sculpture Symposium, Romania, 2021
• Group show "Dialogue", Musée d'Angoulême (16), 2021
• Group exhibition at Château de Saint-Auvent (87), 2021
• Monumental stone sculpture for a sculpture trail in Vix, Vendée, 2021
• 2019-2020 Work on the Gothic church of Arc la Bataille (Normandy). Friezes, pinnacles, cabbage leaves, dog ears
• Carving of elements for Place Stanislas (Nancy), monumental fireballs on molded bases.
• Cutting of friezes and volutes for Nevers town hall.
• participation in the restoration of the Palais du Louvre (Paris)...
• Work carried out in partnership with the Enache Patrimoine workshop (on site and in the workshop)...
• Surgères sculpture symposium, 2019
• Solo exhibition at La Galerie Marland, Angoulême, 2019
• Monumental sculpture for the Festival "ça ira mieux demain", Jardin Vert d'Angoulême, 2019
• Sculpture residency and symposium in Laongo, Burkina Faso, 201
• Sculpture symposium in Tepeji del rio, Mexico (sculpture on Travertine marble), 2017
• September 2017 creation of a high relief for the prestigious Cognac house Rémy-Martin
• International Sculpture residency, at the Crazannes nature centers for the Lapidiales, 2017
• Symposium for a monumental sculpture in Junas (Gard), 2017
• Winner of the Tricoles Foundation grant under the aegis of the Fondation de France. Monumental cliff sculpture (4x3 m), 2016
• Symposium de sculpture monumentale sur pierre à Montendre ( Charente Maritime) 2016
• Basalt sculpture at the art gallery in Dakar (Senegal), Village des Arts, 2016
• 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 realization of trophies for the association L'Hippocampe during the Angoulême International Comics Festival (6 collections, of 36 copies made in polychrome resins, hand-painted finish). Comic strip competition for disabled children.
• Cutting, laying and adjusting various architectural elements and ornamental decorations on stone, St Nicolas basilica, 2013-2014
• 2010-2012 : BP Métier de la pierre in Felletin.
• Apprenticeship at Marc Deligny's statuary workshop in Charente 2010-2012
• 2009-2010: CAP (vocational training certificate) in stonemasonry and building decoration at the Felletin training center (Creuse).
• 2006-2009: BEP Technique de l'Architecture et de l'Habitat, Sillac d'Angoulême school.

© Guy Kunz-Jacques

THOMAS PETIT

Born in 1991, lives and works in Angoulême.

Thomas Petit signs his works CPT for Cesto Petit Thomas: Cesto is the name inherited from his Martinican mother, Petit that of his Charente father. As a child, passionate about natural sciences and paleontology, he created a museum in the family home in Angoulême.

After preparing a BEP in architecture at the Sillac high school, Thomas went to Creuse to train as a stonemason at the Felletin professional building trades high school. He did his apprenticeship in Marc Deligny's workshop, first located in Villejésus near Aigre, then in Tusson in Charente: specializing in ornamental sculpture, this workshop works as much for the private sector as for historic monuments. After his CAP Thomas will continue to improve his skills there.

In 2010, at the age of 18, he made his first major trip to Guyana: there, between Cayenne and Saint-Georges de l’Oyapock, in the heart of the Amazonian forest, he was fascinated by the power of plants and the diversity of insects that would later inspire him (2014-15) to create his giant “membracides”.

In 2014, he backpacked through Burma, northern Thailand and Cambodia. Visiting the Angkor site, he admired the architecture of the temples and the immense program of Khmer sculptures in relief and bas-relief, never tired of drawing the monumental heads of the Bayon and the graceful apsaras in his sketchbook.

In 2016, working with Marc Deligny on a construction site in Sainte-Maxime, Italy not being far away, he went to Carrara, visited the marble quarries, bought tools. In the spring, as part of the “Pierres en dédale” residency in Montendre, in Charente maritime, he created his first large sculpture which evokes a labyrinth. In September, winner of the Charentaise Foundation Les Tricoles, he undertook, in the hamlet of La Brousse, near Sers, a sculpture of 3 meters by 4 in the limestone cliff above the Échelle stream. The sculpture represents "Marianne", whose hair intertwines the artistic emblems of the various continents (including, for Africa, a Kota reliquary figure from Gabon): Thomas thus pays homage to the cultural diversity and to the artists of the Solutrean who, 23,000 years ago, sculpted not far away, at the Roc de Sers, the famous parietal frieze representing horses, ibex, a bison and a human figure, preserved at the National Archaeology Museum in St-Germain-en-Laye.

In February 2017, Thomas went to Dakar, Senegal. There he first met the sculptor Oumar Pouye, a stone sculptor established on the corniche. He stayed for a while at the Village des Arts, located in Yoff on the road to the old airport, which has around fifty workshops and a permanent gallery named after Léopold Sédar Senghor: painters such as Amadou Dieng and Kara Fall welcomed him there fraternally. He sculpted an untitled work in basalt, left on site.

In the summer of 2017, Thomas joined the “Lapidiales”, an open-air sculptors’ workshop created by Alain Tenenbaum in a complex of cliffs and quarries located between Port-d’Envaux and Crazannes, in Charente-Maritime, which offers a unique space for expression to artists from all walks of life. Thomas sculpted a jaguar-man in the round, paying homage to Native American culture. Some time later, shortly before Christmas, Thomas flew to Mexico where he spent two months, invited to the first edition of the Tepeji del Rio stone sculpture festival, in the province of Idalgo: hosted in residence with six other sculptors in a former textile factory, he represented in the local travertine a "tzitzimime", a female star demon in Aztec mythology, and took advantage of his stay to visit the great pre-Columbian temples of Tula and Teotihuacan.

In October 2018, the Burkinabe sculptor Siriki Ky invited him to come to Burkina Faso and participate in the Sculpture Symposium that he created on the site of Laongo, about thirty kilometers from the capital Ouagadougou: it is a granite site that extends over several hectares, which over the years has become a meeting place for international sculptors working according to their inspiration on the rocks that stretch out before them as far as the eye can see. Thomas attacks a fragmentary head with a chisel, half woman, half mask, entitled “Return to Africa”. Thomas sympathizes with different sculptors, including the Kanak Handjing Pagou Banehote. With the bronze artisans who work for Siriki Ky, he familiarizes himself with the technique of lost wax casting and models a pair of bronze eyes for his sculpture. At the end of the residency, Thomas will stay an additional month in Burkina: at the Ouaga Arts Center, he learns to make a djembe (because Thomas is also a musician) and begins to make his first bronze under the supervision of the bronze worker Abdoulaye Kaboré entitled "masque-oiseau".

During 2019, Thomas works for the company of the Romanian-born sculptor restorer, Viorel Enache, on the restoration of one of the pediments of the Louvre Palace, controlled by the M.H. In August-September, he creates for the Saxifraga association, in the middle of the Jardin Vert, a "Daphné" which is today the property of the City of Angoulême.

During the sterile period of confinement, in 2020, he sets up a new workshop in a property belonging to English friends, located in the Anguienne valley. Among his works, and in his tiny home, above the workshop, one can admire Lobi statues brought back from Burkina Faso, Naga ethnographic pieces from north-east India and objects from Sepik (Papua New Guinea).

In 2021, as part of an artistic journey on the theme of the Vine and the Marsh, he created a large sculpture, the “Crocodile Woman” (2.40 x 80), precisely in Vix-en-Vendée, between Fontenayle-Comte and Marans, the homeland of Gaston Chaissac: this work illustrates the mythical metamorphosis of the animal into man (the crocodile was present in this region several million years ago!). The same year, Thomas took part in the collective exhibition at the Angoulême Museum (“Dialogues”) and participated in the International Sculpture Symposium in Măciuca, Romania, where, from a ten-ton block of marble, he created “Éclosion sinueuse” (1m80 x 1m70) in the name of the union of Peoples and Peace, which he will complete in 2022.

Following a hand accident (a constant risk in the tough profession of statuary!), Thomas learned engraving techniques with the painter and engraver Gérard Jullien, a former professor at the Angoulême School of Fine Arts, and produced a beautiful series of prints featuring his favorite themes, which allowed him to approach his art from a different angle.

In 2022, his hand having healed, Thomas returned to monumental sculpture: invited by Hervé Beuze, a visual artist from Martinique and professor at the Campus Caribéen in Fort-de-France, he worked there for two weeks with students, carried out geological surveys with them in the Prêcheur and St-Pierre regions, in the north of the island, and carved large volcanic blocks (andesite and basalt). Before leaving for Martinique, Thomas organized a bronze casting for the first time with Herman Yamaogo, a bronze sculptor from Koudougou whom he met in Chambord. He then cast his first pieces in the workshop. A few months later (July), he did it again this time with Abdoulaye Kaboré, with whom he became friends in 2018 at the Ouagadougou Symposium, by organizing a workshop at the Jesuits open to half a dozen sculptors. The same year, he exhibited his work at Château-d’Oléron, at the L’Escale gallery, alongside a Colombian painter, and in Aubusson on the occasion of the 25th Aproart exhibition. In December, he found himself in Guadeloupe to participate in the first symposium on local stone sculpture organized by the Zévallos association on the site of the Zévallos dwelling in Le Moule (Grande-Terre) at the instigation of the artist François Piquet in homage to the poet Edouard Glissant and his philosophy of the "Tout-Monde": Thomas created a large sculpture in tuff from Ste-Anne, "Lambi Evolution" (2.50 x 1.80 x 1.50 m), which remained on site.

A few weeks later, back in mainland France, he took part in a videoconference organized by the Lamentin library and the Mélanges Caraïbes association (culture, philosophy, art, music)... The year 2023 was marked by three major exhibitions: "Clin d'oeil aux Lapidiales" in Archingeay (Charente maritime), in a private space; “From fiber to stone” in the company of Zimbabwean sculptors at the Moulin de la Pierre in Villehonneur; finally in Bourcefranc, in Charente Maritime, with the metal sculptor Zarco…

In March-April 2024, Thomas travels to Zimbabwe to participate in Rickson Zavaré's workshop with nine other sculptors (one French, two Danish and six Zimbabwean sculptors): this stay will allow him to visit all the high places of Shona sculpture in Zimbabwe (whose name means "great stone dwelling"), to admire the texture and color variations of the local serpentine and to create several sculptures in this material such as "Free movement", in green opal stone (90 cm x 45 x 25 cm) and "Authentic whitness", in springstone (55 x 25 x 20 cm), which will be exhibited at the National Gallery in Harare. After this particularly enriching experience, he took part in the exhibition “Blaye en état d’art” in June, presenting his work at the “Villa Rose” under the aegis of a Parisian gallery, the Galerie Cyril Guerini, rue Visconti, then created an installation during the Journée Chimèrik organized by the Renc’Arts association in Vix in Vendée. In September, he took part in the Ploubalzanec Sculpture Symposium (Côtes du Nord), then in October, returned to Burkina Faso to take part in the Laongo International Stone Sculpture Symposium, during which he created “Triangulation culturelle Rhizome”, in granite and bronze (3.80 x 3.80 m)… In November, he took part, this time as an engraver, in the exhibition “La Gravure en France et en Charente” organized by the town hall of Salles-Lavalette in conjunction with the Angoulême Museum and Art Library. Finally, in December, with his friend Abdoulaye Kaboré, he organized a new residency on bronze casting at the Jesuits.

Proud of his African, Caribbean and Gallic roots, a global citizen, Thomas perfectly embodies the philosophy of the "Tout-Monde" dear to Édouard Glissant, that of the happy interpenetration of cultures and imaginations.

Étienne Féau

Thomas PETIT's work is part of an infinite quest for knowledge, forms and materials. Born into a family with roots in the Caribbean, Charente and Brittany, and driven from an early age by a quest to understand the mechanisms of life, nature has become a veritable playground for him. The themes of nature and human diversity are among his main sources of inspiration.

Artistic and professional career:

• Residency and organization of bronze casting in the workshop in Angoulême with colleague Abdoulaye Kaboré, November and December 2024
• Collective engraving exhibition, organized with the sponsorship of the Artothèque d’Angoulême in Salle la Valette, in Charente, November 2024
• International Symposium of granite sculpture in Laongo, Burkina Faso, October 2024
• Stone sculpture symposium in Ploubalzanec in Brittany, September 2024
• Exhibition Animation sculpture course at Lapidiales, Port d’Envaux, July 2024 (active on introductory courses in stone work since 2016 each year).
• Exhibition "Chimérik", organized by the Renc-Art association, in Vix, June 2024
• Exhibition "Blaye en Etats d'Art" Edition 2024 Presentation at the Villa Rose under the aegis of the Cyril Guerini gallery, June.
• Residency/Symposium/Exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare, March-April-June 2024
• Book and Art Fair in Puymoyen (Charente), February 2024
• Exhibition Galerie Margeurite, Aubeterre-sur-Drônne, 2023
• Exhibition Sculpture, 7 sculptors Bourcefranc (17), 2023
• Exhibition “Le Burck s’illumine” (Mérignac, 33700), 2023
• Festival “Echall’Art” (16170), 2023
• Exhibition “From fiber to stone”, Moulin de la pierre, Villehonneur (16220), 2023
• Exhibition “Clin d’Oeil aux Lapidiales”, Archingeay (17380), 2023
• Exhibition Ascension de L’Art, Aubeterre-sur-Drônne (16390), 2023
• Conference “statuary and representation of history in public space”, organized by Mélanges Caraïbes, 2023
• Sculpture symposium in Zevallos, Guadeloupe 2022
• Group show, "25 ème Salon d'art APROART", Aubusson 2022
• Exhibition at Galerie l'Escale, Château d'Oléron (17), 2022
• Workshop probing and cutting volcanic rocks, at the Campus Caraïbéen des Arts de Fort de France ( Martinique) 2022
• Maciuca International Marble Sculpture Symposium, Romania, 2021
• Group show "Dialogue", Musée d'Angoulême (16), 2021
• Group exhibition at Château de Saint-Auvent (87), 2021
• Monumental stone sculpture for a sculpture trail in Vix, Vendée, 2021
• 2019-2020 Work on the Gothic church of Arc la Bataille (Normandy). Friezes, pinnacles, cabbage leaves, dog ears
• Carving of elements for Place Stanislas (Nancy), monumental fireballs on molded bases.
• Cutting of friezes and volutes for Nevers town hall.
• participation in the restoration of the Palais du Louvre (Paris)...
• Work carried out in partnership with the Enache Patrimoine workshop (on site and in the workshop)...
• Surgères sculpture symposium, 2019
• Solo exhibition at La Galerie Marland, Angoulême, 2019
• Monumental sculpture for the Festival "ça ira mieux demain", Jardin Vert d'Angoulême, 2019
• Sculpture residency and symposium in Laongo, Burkina Faso, 201
• Sculpture symposium in Tepeji del rio, Mexico (sculpture on Travertine marble), 2017
• September 2017 creation of a high relief for the prestigious Cognac house Rémy-Martin
• International Sculpture residency, at the Crazannes nature centers for the Lapidiales, 2017
• Symposium for a monumental sculpture in Junas (Gard), 2017
• Winner of the Tricoles Foundation grant under the aegis of the Fondation de France. Monumental cliff sculpture (4x3 m), 2016
• Symposium de sculpture monumentale sur pierre à Montendre ( Charente Maritime) 2016
• Basalt sculpture at the art gallery in Dakar (Senegal), Village des Arts, 2016
• 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 realization of trophies for the association L'Hippocampe during the Angoulême International Comics Festival (6 collections, of 36 copies made in polychrome resins, hand-painted finish). Comic strip competition for disabled children.
• Cutting, laying and adjusting various architectural elements and ornamental decorations on stone, St Nicolas basilica, 2013-2014
• 2010-2012 : BP Métier de la pierre in Felletin.
• Apprenticeship at Marc Deligny's statuary workshop in Charente 2010-2012
• 2009-2010: CAP (vocational training certificate) in stonemasonry and building decoration at the Felletin training center (Creuse).
• 2006-2009: BEP Technique de l'Architecture et de l'Habitat, Sillac d'Angoulême school.