| Sylvie Weber | Artist in tapestry and textile sculpture |
| GALLERY | Philippe Demeillier |
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GENERAL - Lives and works at: "Bêlèterie" Saint-Front-La-Rivière 24300 Nontron; France; Tel/fax +33 (0)5 53 56 78 04
Born April 21st 1955 at Versailles, France
DIPLOMA: 1974. Technician and designer in applied arts and tapestry. 1974 Sèvres - Pupil of Jaques Brachet. 1974 - 1975 Paris, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts.
PROFESSIONAL - Co-founder and President of the association "Fils et Metiers" for the promotion of textile creation. 2001 Honorary President.
Member of the "Federation National des Ateliers d'Art - France". Member of the International Tapestry Network, USA. Member of the Society for the encouragement of Crafts in France. Member of the "Syndicat des Professionels Metiers d'Art de France" 1999 - present, Head of the project "Pôle Expérimentale Métiers d'Art de Nontron", 2001 Vice-president of the "Federation National des Ateliers d'Art"
Opened her own studio in 1978 for the creation of tapestry and fibre art works.
FILMS & VIDEOS - FR3 Aquitaine - "Du Côté de chez soi", directed by Philippe Cointin. 1991. FUNDACION TALLER DE ANIK, Secteur Culturel, Cali, Columbia - "Sylvie Weber, tapisseries" directed by Michèle Texier, 1992. ATELIER - Association Textile Européenne de Liason, d'Innovation, d'Echange et de Recherche, et ARQUEOTEX - "La Laine et l'homme", directed by René Mannent, 1998.
BOOKS - "Le coeur et l'ouvrage (la lissière - Sylvie Weber)", Editions de la Lauze, photographs Denis Nidos, texts de Maria Carrier, 2001.
HONOURS
- Chevalier
dans
Ordre National du Mérite,
2000,
Chevalier
dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 2002
PRIZES - 1996 "Grand Prix départmentale et régional pour la création contemporaine - SEMA". 1995: First prize for creativity - "Métiers d'Art d'Aquitaine et d'ailleurs - St Emilion" and "Prix du jumelage des villes de Bordeaux et Fukuoka (Japon)" . 1982 Third prize for creativity at the "Salon des Métiers d'Art", Paris.
ARTIST
IN RESIDENCE - 1987
à Jurata - POLOGNE, 2001,
2001, 2002, 2003, 2009 à Kati Kati - New Zealand - Kati Kati Open Air Art Committee, with financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; from the French Embassy and Creative New Zealand.
PRINCIPAL EXHIBITIONS
| 2010 | - Expression Textile Contemporain ( etc...) La Passerelle" La Gacilly - France- - 1 er Festival International des Métiers d'Art ( lauréate du concours) à Baccarat - France- - Waiheke Comunity Art Gallery - Nouvelle- Zélande- - Exposition "Prestige" Pôle Expérimental Métiers d'Art - Nontron- France- |
| 2009 | Kati Kati
Museum et Bethlehem College - New Zealand. Participation in "La Couverture Vivante" international travelling exhibition. "Arts Pro" Saint Astier - France. "Art" Saint-Crépin de Richemont - France. "Le Bois d'Armand" - land art - St. Front sur Nizonne - France. Mikkelsen Gallery - Paeroa - New Zealand. Galerie Argot - St. Pardoux la Rivière - France. "Ce dont on fait, les Fées, les Contes et les Légendes...." - PEMA - Nontron - France. |
| 2008 | "Florilège"
- PEMA de Nontron - France. |
| 2007 | "Aujourd'hui la Tapisserie" - "Regard sur la Tapisserie contemporaine en France" - group exhibition at PEMA - Nontron, et à l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art - Aubusson. |
| 2006 | Group
exhibition "Art International Festival" 2006 - Tachikawa - JAPON exhibition at the Salon des Métiers d'Art- St Yrieux-la-Perche - 87 |
| 2005 | Expérimental
boutique on the site at Varaignes and Boutique Métiers d'Art à
Nontron in the framework of the European projet EQUAL "Métiers
d'art Patrimoine et Territoires Vivants". "Tour de cou insolite" (Fils et Métiers) Varaignes, Nontron - candidate in the competition "Jardin Reduit" - Angers - candidate in the competition "Kimonologue" - Tournai - Belgique |
| 2004 | Salon du Patrimoine culturel au Carrousel du Louvre - Paris - in the framework of the European projet EQUAL "Métiersd'art patrimoine et territoires vivants" (SEMA/FNAA) |
| 2003 |
"Te Pae Tawhiti"
TAURANGA - Nouvelle Zélande - |
| 2002 | "Pol'arisation",
galerie Luisa delle Piane à Milan, Italie, et Biennale du Design
de St. Etienne, France. "Sanil'Art" à Notre Dame de Sanilhac, France."Vêtements Imaginaires", (Fils et Métiers) Varaignes, Coulouniex Chamiers, Issigeac, Felletin, et Biennale du Design de St. Etienne, France. |
| 2001 |
"Vetements Imaginaires"
Pôle Expérimentale Métiers d'Art de Nontron et Varaignes;
France. |
| 2000 | ITNET 2000 Tapestries at the Millennium - virtuel international exibition on Internet at: http://www.alaska.net/~itnet/ . ALDO, contemporary creations, SEMAEST, Viaduc des Arts, Paris, France |
| 1999 | Textiles contemporaines "communication" - Fukuoka - JAPON. "Chapeaux Fous" - contemporary textile creations - Varaignes, France |
| 1998 | ITNET
4 second virtuel international exibition on Internet: http://www.alaska.net/~itnet/
Journées du Patrimoine - Ministère de la Culture - "Regard sur les Métiers d'Art" Contemporary Art - Bordeaux-Fukuoka - Museum of Modern Art, Fukuoka - Japan. |
| 1997 | Contributor. Courses introducing primary school children to the art and methods of tapestry weaving. |
| 1996 | Voyage to Japan with an exhibition at the Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan, departmental and regional grand prize of the association Metiers d'Art Contemporains |
| 1995 | First prize, category Creativity, of the association Metiers d'Art Contemporains d'Aquitaine et d'ailleurs" |
| 1994 | International Biennale of textile miniatures Szombathely, Hungary |
| 1993 | Exhibition of Contemporary Tapestries (ARELIS), International City of Arts, Paris. |
| 1990-2 |
ITNET Exhibition 1 U.S.A. |
| 1988 |
International Tapestry Symposium - World Weavers' Wall - Melbourne, Australia |
| 1987 | Plenner and Collective Exhibition, Gdynia, Poland |
| 1983 | Contemporary Tapestries, Luxemburg Museum, Paris 1982 Decorative Wall Art from France, Dallas U.S.A 1989 - |
| GALLERY | Philippe Demeillier |
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