Nigeria (2016) Sculpture by Annelies Adriaensen

Annelies Adriaensen was born in Belgium and since 2005 lives and works in the south of France. She has found the workshop of her dreams in the eastern pyrenees in the village of Molitg-les-bains. It’s a large bright workshop with wonderful view over the mountains. Since she was 8 years old she has been drawing, painting and working with clay. After studying at the Art School in Bruges, Annelies went to the Academy of Art University in Anwerp, Belgium, to study sculpture.

In 2014 she won the prize "new talent in sculpture" at the festival of contemporary art in Cannes. In 2015 she was selected to show her bronze sculpture "Maternity" at the exhibition of the "Société National des Beaux Arts" in Paris. In 2016 she went for a two month residency in Belgium where she created a 6 feet high sculpture of a young african woman in plaster and wood called "Africa". In 2018 she began a new series of work in collaboration with her ceramist collegue Marie-Line Marsaux. In this she combines ceramics with sculpture and painting creating very unique, playful coloured small pieces of art. They were exhibited in the famous "Gallerie des Hospices" in Canet-en-Roussillon near Perpignan.

" Throughout my life art has always been very important. I prefer to work with clay, for me it’s sensual, and soft character give it inexhaustible creative possibilities. Art is important to people, life and dreams. I hope that with my art I can make people dream and I can give them a some light"

• Nationality: BELGIUM
• Date of birth : 1983
• Artistic domains: Works by artists with a certified artist value, Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Certified Artists Professional Artist Contemporary Belgian Artists