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About Audrey Nathalie Dubois

Audrey Nathalie Dubois (AND Studio) develops a body of work in colored pencil on tracing paper, exploring the interplay between light, vegetation, and transparency. Trained at the Beaux-Arts in Marseille and at the École du Paysage in Versailles, she exhibits her work, takes part in residencies, and engages in diverse artistic collaborations.

Inspired by nature and the Mediterranean world, she seeks to capture the invisible and the ephemeral within her vision of the Mediterranean landscape.

Her favored medium is colored pencil on extra-thick, velvety tracing paper (300g). Through tracing paper, she explores light not as a frontal illumination, but as a diffuse, intimate, permeating presence. Initially a tool for landscape design research, tracing paper has now become a medium for new explorations. It lets things pass through—like what is seen, and sometimes what traverses us. Her drawing inhabits this in-between.

The act of drawing with colored pencil is slow and attentive; it is less about representation than about capturing, a fleeting sensation held and laid gently on the paper.

Recently settled in Marseille…

"My work, at first glance, may seem quite the opposite: it unfolds in a diffuse light, softened by the tracing paper, filtered as if through the veil of eyelids. It is within this diffusion that I reconnect, differently, with the clarity of the South. I also seek what is hidden. I do not expose it directly; I invite it to emerge softly, in subtle shades. Where the southern light reveals through brilliance, my light reveals through permeation. For a long time, I wondered what these two kinds of light might say to one another, until I understood what they share: the desire for revelation."


Public and Private Collections

  • Fleurs la nuit, collection privée.  
  • Monstera Deliciosa, gouache sur papier, Artothèque, Musée d’Angers.
  • Jardin Aménagé, collection Frac Paca.
  • Cuisine, collection Fnac.
  • Séjour, collection privée.
  • Commode, collection privée.
  • Appartement model, collection musée de Sérignan.
  • La Fanfare, collection musée de Sérignan.

Grants

  • Bourse d’aide à la création, Région Pays de la Loire, 2018.
  • L’Effet Guggenheim, bourse de recherche, FIACRE (ministère de la Culture), parrainée par
  • Daniel Buren, Bilbao, 1999.

Exhibitions

  • Installation sur l’espace public, Angers Ralliement, 2024.
  • Exposition collective musée de Chollet, 2022.
  • Exposition galerie In situ - Notre Dame Challans, invitation de Stéphane Tellier, 2020.
  • Exposition In situ EREA Angers, 2019. Rectorat et Drac des pays de la Loire.
  • Exposition collective, acquisition artothèque d’Angers. 2020.
  • Exposition Frac des Pays de la Loire, le Frac en Région, Saint Hilaire de Riez, 2019.
  • Exposition Hôtel des Pénitentes, 2016, Angers.
  • Résidence, CHU Angers, 2015-2016.
  • Festival des Arts Éphémères Marseille, Frac Paca, Ville de Marseille, ENSBAM, mai 2015.
  • Résidence artiste, CHU Angers, Frac 44. 2013.
  • Exposition Fontenay le Comte. Salle Gaston Chaissac, Frac et réseau Arthur. 2012.
  • Fais comme chez toi, Saint-Martin-du-Var, novembre 2008-juin 2009.
  • Jouer l’espace, Avignon, 2008.
  • Les nains de Jardins, exposition collective Espace Aldébaran, Baillargues, 2006.
  • Le Grand Salon, commande publique, Béziers, 2005.
  • Salon-de-Provence, Frac Paca, 2004.
  • La rue du Chevalier Roze et ses métiers. Bureau des compétences et désirs, Marseille 2003.
  • Jardin aménagé, collection Frac Paca. Performance à la Fête des Plants, la Valette du Var, 2003.
  • Habiter Cheverny, Montpellier, Art en Thèse, 1998.
  • Contre-calque, Montpellier, Art en Thèse, 1996.
  • Habiter, projet en collaboration avec Mathilde Monnier chorégraphe, Montpellier, 1997.