Born in Lessines (Belgium) in 1978
Lives between Brussels and Tournai
Workshop in Braine-le-Comte.
TRAINING
2012-2004 Ceramics - Académie des Beaux-arts d'Anderlecht (Brussels) 2010 - 2007 Master's degree - Académie royale de Bruxelles (sculpture)
2003 Bachelor's degree Institut Saint-Luc Bxl (scenography)
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Masters of the Future, Be Craft Mons BE
2020 Copying Machine, Le Palace - Ath, 2019 Assiettes parlantes, Keramis (La Louvière BE), 2017 Fight - galerie Vorn und Oben (Eupen)
"Tableau d'une exposition", the title of the presentation, could be a reference to Modest Mussorgsky's suite. Olivia Mortier sees it as a tribute to the abundant nature found in the tapestries of the 1950s-60s, by cartonniers such as Jean Lurçat (1892-1966) and Dom Robert (1907-1997), or those of Belgians Roger Somville (1923-2014) and Edmond Dubrunfaut (1920-2007), renovators of haute lisse tapestry in Tournai. Olivier Mortier lives between Tournai and Brussels. As a scholarship holder (2015) and then artistic advisor (2018-2021) at TAMAT (Musée de la Tapisserie et des Arts Textiles) in Tournai, she discovered an exceptional tapestry-making heritage spanning the 15th to the 21st centuries. (...)
Read the full text in the 2025 exhibition catalog
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