Carmen (2018) Printmaking by Lucile Taupin

Lucile who has as an option in high school: cinema-audiovisual and as an optional plastic art option. Discover at during his freshman year the work of Jan Fabre.

It was an incredible discovery, the doors to a new world opened to her. So that was art, an enormous space of freedom. Insects, sciences have their place in art. They are not opposites.

Artists are not a profession unlike scientists who are legitimate and will save the world. This erroneous image was transmitted to her a lot, which pushed her today to work on the relationship between art and science and more precisely, on the scientist/artist parallel

Her first step in the artistic world is her entry into Prép'art.

After an incredibly enriching year of prep, it is full of hope and desire that she enters the National School of Art in Bourges. There she discovered engraving which led her to do internships in essential places such as URDLA, The Moret workshops and the Bo Halbirk workshop and gave her excellent foundations in this field.

A Having graduated from DNAP, Lucile leaves to see how things are going on the market. She went to Belgium to go to art school but quickly realized that it was not her place.

She took competitive exams again to finish her schooling at the art and media school in Caen. Lucile is very enthusiastic because at the start of the school year an experimental master's degree is being announced to rethink art schools, ways of learning and evaluating. Everything has to be done, everything has to be thought about. She gets involved, she believes in it. The group started with the idea of ​​creating while roaming, from a place.

She continues to be involved in her master's degree and organizes a one-week trip on her own with very little cost to Plombières-les-bains where they have the opportunity to learn stained glass techniques. A very good experience, which will give exposure. His involvement will cost him his year, repeating only because of the final oral exam, she is looking for another training to be able to be intellectually stimulated. She finds her happiness during the evening classes at the university. And do a university degree in cross-artistic culture.

The year is catastrophic a concern for health and its nutritional work gives the opportunity to teacher to humiliate her, to put pressure on her before firing her. Lucile coriace tries to defend her place but leaves her latest strengths. Impossible to go back there, she is fired, betrayed by the system, betrayed by power, betrayed by these humans whom she esteemed.

She launched into the professional life of an artist without really knowing how to do it, she applied for residencies, internships... The image factory in Ambert l accepts for a month, she rediscovers engraving, one of her favorite mediums.

The Persan arthothèque adds two of her engravings to its collection.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1993
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists