Born in 1984 in Paris.
Lives and works in Ivry-sur-Seine (France) and Brussels (Belgium).
www.marionbocquetappel.com instagram.com/marionbocquetappel/
TRAINING
2010 DNSEP École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (in Anne Rochette's studio)
post-graduate studies: Kaolin at ENSA Limoges (2012) then Offshore with ENSA de Nancy (2013), which enabled him to spend a year in China.
Teacher-researcher - research and creation - under the supervision of Eric Van Essche and Caroline Andrin. Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre - ceramics department. Université Libre de Belgique and GRESAC (Groupe de recherche en sciences des arts et de la culture) research laboratory.
EXHIBITIONS
2013 "Global Tour" at the Cité de la Céramique Sèvres and Limoges at the Musée Adrien Dubouché / "Mutations" solo show at the La Plantation art center in Peking / "Global Tour" at the Musée Adrien Dubouché in Limoges
2015 61st Salon de Montrouge / Salon C14 Paris
2021 Galerie Eleven Steens, Brussels (curated by jean-Marc Dimanche)
2023 St Sulpice Céramique.
After her 2013 residency in China, Marion Bocquet-Appel began a series of biscuit-glazed porcelain urns, a whole universe of whiteness and ashes. Becoming more sculpture than container, the subsequent works, with their subtle sfumato, lined up, playing with intervals and spacing to configure a space. Her intention is to inscribe in the exhibition space a veritable landscape, majestic and intriguing: mountains of porcelain and stoneware pots reveal her passion for ancestral ceramic techniques, which she has gathered from artisans in the Maghreb and Asia. (...)
Read the full text in the 2025 exhibition catalog
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