Virginie Morel pays homage to nature with her plant sculptures

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After training in the fine arts of Nantes, the visual artist very early turned to creation in volumeintended for live entertainment and the performing arts. She notably made puppets for a Nantes festival in 1999 and worked on the decoration of the “les Virevoltés” ​​festival in Vire in 2003.

“I had created some sort of scenes with characters resembling scarecrows,” explains the artist. A plastic bias that the designer subsequently deepened in her volumes.

Wishing to distance herself from the artistic world for a while, Virgine Morel, also very sensitive to the natural and plant world, turned to botany in 2005. “ I let myself be guided by my desires “, she declares. She thus followed PPAM training (Aromatic and medicinal plant) with a specialty in wild edible plants. In his plastic production, this link with the world of plants has remained particularly significant.

“After this training, I had the project of the carlotte (Traveling plant bar) where I offered wild plants for tasting in the form of drinks and soups. This project lasted 10 years, La Carlotte moved within a 100 km radius around Sourdeval, from 2010 to 2020,” explains the artist.

An intimate link with the plant and animal world

The designer has been using a method of stuffing from haysurrounded by a metal frame to create sculptures on the theme of the animal and plant world. She has created various animals (monkeys, birds, pigs, etc.), exhibited in particular in churches and abbeysas well as more imposing decorative elements for variousfestivals linked to nature.

“I am not represented by a gallery, I rather provide services, I exhibit outdoors for plant-related festivals and indoors, in different heritage sites, I have also participated in music festivals, events artistic and created monumental sculptures in situ,” explains the artist.

At Ccultural center of Avranchesthe artist presents a “flock of geese“. Birds occupy a particularly important place in Virginie Morel’s work. Charged with a strong symbolic dimension, the bird represents for her freedom, travel, the aerial side, the fact of freeing ourselves from everything that weighs down our existence. Virginie Morel’s sculptures are on display at the center until December 13, 2024. They are also available for sale, an original gift as the holidays approach!

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