Anne-Valerie Dupond was born in 1976. She studied Arts at University Marc Bloch (Strasbourg). After graduation, she lives and works in France. Feeling responsible to take care of the planet, Anne started to work with old furniture, recycling and using simple materials like cotton, card box, textile to create her unique form of art – stitched sculptures.
Anne believes that the value of art lies in the talent but not the material. Her artwork is simple yet beautiful. She feels that people should rediscover beauty behind very common things in order to find the way of happiness.
Anne uses a very special way to do unique sculptures: she stitches, without a draft, and she is finding the form "in her fingers". That way to work (textile, stitching), with no exterior help, is very feminine. She is turning upside down the big rules of men's sculptures, which are heavy, pretentious, and tall, into soft, light and amazing pieces of art. That's why she works especially on heads of hunted animals: she is doing of a dead yet alive thing, of a frightening result of men's violence, a kind of living and incredibly expressive puppet.
Each animal sculpture created by Anne is unique. She could do every kind of animal, except cats, because she likes them too much to see their heads on the wall. She creates everything by inspiration and with no draft, and works only by hands and random old furniture each time.
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