Catherine Hélie - Tissage 7

Weaving realized with embroidery, threads, wools, fabrics, trims, beads and ribbons.
A unique piece, signed on the back.

She discovers painting under the auspices of Kandinsky (Centre Georges Pompidou, 1979).
She flees school and a provincial, uneducated family milieu. Settles in the South, and makes a living from small jobs.
Back in the Paris region, she takes up photography training, which leads her to join the Opale news agency, where her collection of writers’ photos is kept.

She continues this work for a fairly large number of publishing houses (Fayard, etc.), until she is offered, in 2004, a full-time then part-time position as the sole photographer of authors for Gallimard editions (where she also photographed works by painters for catalogues – Cocteau, Dalí, Picasso, Pincemin, Pignon-Ernest, etc.), which she leaves in 2016, thereby leaving Paris to settle on the Normandy coast (Seine-Maritime) and devote herself only to painting (and its derivatives).
This photographer’s work will have lastingly interrupted her personal creative activity.

In 2001 she met Jacques Clerc (publisher and artist) and Henri Maccheroni (painter and photographer) thanks to whom she exhibited at the Mentoux-Gignac gallery, Paris, in the IVe arrondissement, first with them, then alone, before the gallery closed.
She later exhibited in several places, Paris, Nice, Rouen at the Duchoze gallery, and until the discovery of the possibilities offered by online galleries (Artmajeur).

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

Her painting work led to a catalogue for the Duchoze gallery, published by the “Rencontres: des lieux, des artistes, Agglomération de Rouen”.

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

In 2022 she began training in classical hand embroidery. She then creates “textile works” as well as weavings with recovered and found materials. She also makes art assemblages, staging recovered objects, vegetal offerings, bones, etc.

She now devotes herself entirely to her work.