ART(ist) #13

Laureline Galliot

Capturing the profile of artists supported by Rubis Mécénat, with different universes and cultures, this is the challenge of the ART(ist) series.

Laureline Galliot is a French designer, she lives and works in the Paris region. Influenced by her own digital paintings, she experiments with modelling and virtual paintings and explores the new forms of pictoriality offered by virtual sculpture and painting software. In 2019, Rubis Mécénat commissioned Laureline Galliot to create a triptych of digital paintings inspired by Ndao Hanavao, a long-term social design project initiated by the endowment fund in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The paintings depict scenes specific to the recovering of plastic waste practiced in Antananarivo, the preliminary steps to the making of Polyfloss wool. Laureline Galliot is also collaborating with Ndao Hanavao on the creation of a new rug model made from Polyfloss wool.

Born in 1986, Laureline Galliot lives and works in the Paris region. After studying textile design at ENSAAMA (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d’Art), she chose to study product design and graduated from ENSCI-Les Ateliers in 2012. Influenced by her own digital paintings, Laureline Galliot experiments with modelling and virtual paintings and explores new formal possibilities for objects using iPad as a touch screen interface to re-connect design process with hand gesture. In combination with 3D printers, they can also be made into three-dimensional ready-painted objects using an innovative form of plaster craft. His digital creations have been adapted for weaving looms so that he can also use them to produce textiles and rugs. Laureate of the Villa Noailles in 2013 and of the Villa Kujoyama in 2017, her work has joined the French design national collection of the CNAP and the MAD in Paris.