Lily Clouds flax artist made paper, sterling wire 4’ x 14’ x 14’

Lily Clouds flax artist made paper, sterling wire 4’ x 14’ x 14’

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Artist Biography:
Jocelyn Châteauvert, born 1960, was raised and educated in Iowa City, Iowa. At the University of Iowa she earned a M.F.A. in metalworking and jewelry with extensive hours in handmade paper and a minor in sculpture. After teaching in London at Middlesex Polytechnic, she then established herself as a professional artist in San Francisco. Châteauvert settled in Charleston, South Carolina in 1999.
In 2005 she was awarded the South Carolina Arts Commission’s highest award of “Craft Fellow”. Recently, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery recognized her work to be one of four artists represented in the prestigious 2007 Craft Invitational From the Ground Up. She pursues her work full time creating jewelry, lighting, sculpture and installations inspired by the paper she makes by hand.

 

 

Jocelyn Châteauvert

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Charleston

 

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About the Work:

“I face the ocean, just minutes away my hands imitating a wave as I draw the mould through the vat gathering pulp. Water and fiber settle after the final crest as if exhausted. I tuck each sheet between woolen blankets then press it hard to mingle its cells. Paper still damp my fingers impress crease, fold and pinch integrating structure with pattern. The paper responds then shrinks taking its final form from the air itself.”