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Visual arts: found-object compositions, jewellery, sculpture
23 quai Marcel-Boissard, Trentemoult, 44400 Rezé
Studio no.3
A Trentemoult local, Françoise Moinel has always collected what others leave behind: driftwood washed up by the Loire, salvaged objects and odd little treasures. From this inventory come compositions and faceted, sweet-like jewellery, surprising and gleefully 'kitsch'. Her sculptures of driftwood and gleaned objects were shown at La Civelle restaurant on the quay in 2013 and at Trentemoult's makers' markets. She opens studio no. 3 of the Ateliers nocturnes.
Trouvailles et retrouvailles ! Je traque et je récupère depuis toujours toutes sortes de matériaux… C'est mon terreau pour créer… Et dans cet inventaire de trésors insolites naissent des compositions, des bijoux… comme des bonbons aux multiples facettes ! Surprenants, parfois "kitch"… Ces objets prennent et/ou reprennent place en s'imposant dans un monde artistique conceptuel.

Composition of buttons, beads and found objects · © Françoise Moinel

Assemblage: driftwood and gleaned objects (La Civelle, 2013) · © Françoise Moinel

Assemblage: driftwood, jewellery and finds (La Civelle, 2013) · © Françoise Moinel
At the studio during open days.
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