Catherine Helie - Textile - 73 cm - 66 cm - Textile 4

Textile on linen made with embroidery, threads, wools, fabrics, laces, and ribbons.
A unique piece, signed on the back.

She discovers painting under the auspices of Kandinsky (Centre Georges Pompidou, 1979).
She fled school and a carpenter’s milieu in which she felt at a loss. She settled in the South, living on small jobs.
Back in the Paris region, she trained in photography, which led her to join the Opale news photo agency, where her collection of writers’ photographs was housed.

She continued this work for a fairly large number of publishing houses (Fayard, etc.), until in 2004 she was offered a full-time and then part-time position as the sole photographer for authors at Gallimard editions (where she also photographed works by painters for catalogs – Cocteau, Dali, Picasso, Pincemin, Pignon-Ernest, etc.), a post she left in 2016, thus leaving Paris and moving to the Normandy coast (Seine-Maritime) to devote herself exclusively to painting (and its derivatives).
This photographer’s work permanently interrupted her personal creative activity.

In 2001 she made the acquaintance of Jacques Clerc (editor and artist) and Henri Maccheroni (painter and photographer), through whom she exhibited at the Mentoux-Gignac gallery, Paris, in the Third Arrondissement, with them once, alone a second time, before the gallery closed.
She later exhibited in several places—Paris, Nice, Rouen at the Duchoze gallery—and this continued until the discovery of opportunities offered by online galleries (Artmajeur).

Her preferred modern artists are numerous: Dado, Saura, Staël, Tapiès, Bourgeois, Pollock, Grau-Garriga, Joan Mitchell, Annette Messager, Rebeyrolle, etc.

Her painting work resulted in a catalog for the Duchoze gallery, published by the “Rencontres: des lieux, des artistes, Agglomération de Rouen.”

Her photographic work on Parisian cemeteries has given rise to several publications and studies; in the general press (Télérama, etc.) as well as in specialized journals (Ligeia, special issue “Photography as vector,” analyzed by philosopher Jean-Louis Déotte, etc.).

In 2022 she followed a course in traditional hand embroidery. She then created “textile works” as well as weavings using recovered and found materials. She also makes art assemblages, staging recovered objects, plant matter, bones, etc.

She now dedicates herself entirely to her work."