Claire Lavendhomme

Born in 1959

Lives and works in Brussel (Belgium)

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(…)”If we may be so bold: the sharp edge of sensitivity on the one hand, the very subtle construction on the other. All of it in a sort of perpetually threatened emotion”.

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(… )”Si l’on peut aller jusque là, le tranchant de la sensibilité d’une part, la très subtile construction d’autre part, tout cela dans une sorte d’émotion perpétuellement menacée”.

J-M H 1995

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“Claire Lavendhomme plays with the” philosophical “notions of life using the form in an almost bi-dimensional way. Her work reveals something subtle, vibrant, poetic, mysterious …”

FS, 2012

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Artist creator

•  Contemporary jewellery, objets, drawings, multidisciplinary.

•  Since 1997    Organisation of artistic meetings (plastic arts, cinema, conferences, lectures music, …)

Link: http://artrencontre.blogspot.com

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Teacher experience

Since

• 2003    •Contemporary jewellery teacher at Academy of fine Arts.

Link: http://atelierarlon.blogspot.com

               •Teacher of many workshops (jewelery, resin,artistic research).

Link: http://workshoplavendhommeclaire.blogspot.com

• 2016    •Teacher at « institut Jeanne Toussaint » (Arts et Métiers), Bruxelles

• Before 2003  •Teacher in the broader context of fine arts.

Some recent exhibitions (in jewellery)

Expose since 1992

• 2018    Elle-luit/jewellery and light. Wcc-bf (B)

               Kleine Kabinet , Tokyo . (J)

               Le génie des images, La joaillerie par Mazlo, Paris. (F)

• 2017    Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London. (UK)

               Kleine Kabinet , Tokyo . (J)

               Bijoux d’artistes et de créateurs. Piasa. Auction during “parcours bijoux”, Paris. (F)

• 2016    Schmuck 2016. Handwerkmessen. Curator Peter Skubic. Munchen. (D)

               Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London. (UK)

               Bonds, METALLOphone, International Biennial of Contemporary Meta art. (AV17)Gallery, Vilnius.

• 2015    Silence please! Noel Guyomarc’h gallery. Curator Ramon Puig Cuyas. Montréal. (C)

               Beijing International Contemporary Metal and jewellery Art Exhibition. China  World Art Museum. (China)

               Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London. (UK)

• 2014    Multiple Exposures : Jewelry and Photography Loan(s). Museum of Arts Design New York . (USA)

               European Triennal of contemporary Jewelry (2011, 2008, 2005) Etable des Anciens abattoirs de Mons. (B)

               Le bijou mis à prix, Drouot, Paris. (F)

               Transformation 8, Light Yawkey Art Museum, Wassau. (USA)

               Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London. (UK)

• 2013    Passage, Sabine Herman Gallery, Bruxelles. (B)

               La frontera, Velvet Da Vinci, San Fransisco & Franz Mayer Museum, Mexico

               Tweex 2. Vander A Gallery. Bruxelles.(B) Bijou d’auteur.

               Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles de Paris. (F)

               Schmuck Show, during the Schmuck, Munchen. (D)

• 2012    European Prize for Applied Arts ( 2010). Anciens abattoirs de Mons. (B)

               Accès direct12, Château de Seneffe, Musée de l’orfèvrerie, Seneffe. 5b°

Some recent exhibitions (drawing, multidisciplinary)

• 2017    Sithonia, Flux Gallery, Liège. (B)

• 2016    Centre culturel de Marchin. (B)

• 2015    Sur du rien, Le Clignoteur Gallery, Bruxelles. (B)

• 2014   Autour du mot, Centre Culturel de Marchin. (B)

• 2012    Participation at « Frecher », Loods 12. Wetteren. (B)

• 2017    Participation at « Hommage à Bernd Lohaus », M HKA, Gand. (B)

• and since 1997  the « rencontres artistiques ». Belgium

Els Vansteelandt (°1961) started as an independent gold and silversmith in 1997. She designs jewellery and objets d’art. Her work is displayed in museums and galleries in major cities in Europe.

Els works both in her own studio in the green outskirts of Brussels and in an open workshop and showroom in a more urban setting in the centre of Brussels.

Anything can be inspiration for me. I just need to look around, observe, let my imagination start to flow and connect shapes. The emotional impulses that inspire me to design, lead me straight to the precious metal. I begin working with an idea about the form a piece of jewellery or an object will take. Much happens as I work, and I let my material take the lead. Whether this process results in a brooch or a silver spoon… cannot be predicted. Unforeseen events and unexpected variations make my material an endless world to explore and discover.