Françoise Trin (born 1954)

Françoise models the human form as a mass, embracing materiality and solidity, always with sensuality in handling. One might reference Brancusi for simplicity of form and Maillol for technique.
Following a five-year period living in the Bois d’Amour by the river in Pont Aven, the artist produced the forest-inspired series ‘les couples-raçines’. Francoise felt the need to work with these natural, organic elements with which she had been so closely entwined. One observes the exposed tangled roots of trees on the riverbank and the huge rocks planted in the middle of the water, translated into human form.
Over time, the artist’s work has become increasingly figurative in style. Yet, regardless of simplicity, detail or form, Françoise’s evolving practice maintains a fundamental intention to reunite, express and bring the viewer closer to what she considers to be the fundamental unity of life.

We will be showing some of the series ‘les couples-raçines’ at Tyger’s Head this autumn/winter.

Education

1974-76: Ecôle Superièure des Beaux Arts Paris studying painting under Zavarro and sculpture under Jean Bertholle

1976-79: Beaux Art Paris l’atelier de Sculpture Monumentale under Etienne-Martin, also with Léopold Kretz who taught her the art of the bust. Kretz had worked with Bourdelle, Maillol and Brancusi.

1980-86: Beaux Arts Paris studying with Jacques Delahaye for her Diplôme Superièur d’Arts Plastique.

Selected Solo Exhibition

2010 April-October - Galerie ‘Au fil de l’art’ Quimper

2009 June- September – ‘Defis de Femmes’ Abbaye de St Maurice, Clohars-Carnoet

2001 April – September - Galerie de la Passerelle, Pont Aven

1994 October – November – Galerie Jacques Hamon, Le Havre

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 October-December – ‘Corps er Accords, 3 Femmes Artistes’ Maison Prebendale, St Pol de Leon 1998 – May-June – ‘Figures Figurations’, Redon, Morbihan

1997 - ‘Sculpteurs sur Bronze’ Artable, Lorient

1994 – ‘Coefficient 94’, Maison des Artistes, Cagnes sur Mer

Salons

2002 – Salon des Artistes Français Paris. (See the Marcel Sandoz price by the Fondation Taylor, below).

1994 – Salon for Contemporary Sculpture, Landivisiau

1993 – Salon de Plomodiern, Finistère

1985 – Salon d’art contemporain, Gourin and Pont Aven

1984 – Salon d’art contemporain, Pont Aven

Commissions

2009 – Trophy ‘prix Henri Queffelec’ for the Salon de Livre Maritime, Concarneau

2003 – Bust of Jean Moulin for Place Jean Moulin, Quimper

1994 – Monument Theodore Hersart, Quimperle

1990 – Fresco 25m2 Library of Plonevez-Lochrist

1988 – Bas-relief in bronze ‘Hommage to the poet Xavier Grall’, Pont Aven

 

 

Awards

2002 Sculpture prize Marcel Sandoz awarded by the Fondation Taylor, Paris

 

£2500 - £6000

all bronzes are in an edition of 8 with 2 artist proofs