Topaze (2011) Sculpture by Annie Laurence Malleron

Annie-Laurence Malleron was born in Paris in 1958. She lives and works in Brittany near the ”Morbihan” gulf.

She was trained as a home designer and worked as such for twelve years. Meanwhile, she discovered she was more gifted for sculpture than for anything else. From her studies in art school she keeps a forceful taste for daring arrangements of striking colours, which she experienced on her fishes.

She feels very close to the sea so that her vision and questioning are focused on the aquatic world. Through her work of art, she opens and sustains a dialogue with the beauty of nature around her. Her plastic research is built around Fish. Admiring her harmonious creations brings up the question of our own relationship with the world and our environment. The Ephemeral and the Eternal merge in the same object. Man and fish (bodies and faces interlinked) remind us of the mournful or wonderful intertwined fate of Man and Fish.

Her creating means picking clay and transforming it. Through the alchemical transmutation of earth and fire, her artist's hand leads us to her art. The fish is a symbol, half oniric, half realistic. Annie-Laurence's research is a quest for catching movement and transmitting it to the piece of work she is giving life to. Each of her fishes is unique. All shapes, scales, eyes are different from others. In the same way, the aquatic world brims with all kinds of variations in a given species.

Annie-Laurence's work is an expression of her deeper self. Her way is to celebrate the fluidity and plasticity of the universe. Her vocabulary springs from her observation of fish, curves and volumes express her grammar, syntax lies in the surge of emotion
“I like to start from allegorical associations between Man and Fish and write an ode to fancy and imagination. I let my hands stroke clay sensually. A fantastic world arises from this

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1958
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists