Hi !¶
Nice to meet you, I’m Claire. I love lines, the colors blue and yellow, the sun’s rays, and the ocean of my the ocean of my childhood. I spend my time imagining and crafting around the questions that live in my head.
After two initial programs in Object Design at ESDMAA (France) and ESA Saint-Luc in Tournai (Belgium), I decided to continue my path with a Master’s in Textile Design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. There, I devoted two years of research to a project centered on the wool from my family’s sheepfold, shaping my practice around an intimate dialogue between material, territory, and memory.
Originally from Béarn and the Basque Country, I am deeply committed to giving back meaning and visibility to a resource too often overlooked: the wool of the Manech Tête Rousse sheep. This raw and local material has become my anchor point for reflecting on the disappearance of rural textile traditions and the transmission of ancestral gestures.
Between tradition and innovation, I create textile surfaces that bring back the memory of this forgotten material. My work unfolds as a living laboratory where technical experiments, collected stories, and artisanal know-how intersect.
With a sensitive and committed approach, I question the role of textiles in our living environments of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. I explore wool’s potential to once again become a structuring element of our spaces: insulating, enveloping, tracing gestures. Through the objects and installations I shape, I tell the story of my territory, my mountains, and the human lives that have always been guided by the seasons and transhumances.
Some works¶
Motivations¶
By participating in the Fabricacademy, I hope to continue developing my knowledge of textiles and innovation. For me, it would be an opportunity to explore new research directions with the material of my childhood. But what excites me the most about this new project is the chance to meet new people, exchange ideas, and share our work with the world.
Assignments¶
During these 13 weeks, I want to introduce myself through 13 places that are important to me. Google Maps is part of who I am and my work, I spend my time pinning places I love or dream of discovering. In my practice, I mapped the last places in France where wool is still valued, and I shared it online as an open resource to highlight the remaining craftsmanship. Fabricacademy is the perfect opportunity to travel, explore, and learn about each other around the world, so I chose My Maps, an extension of Google Maps, to share all the places that make up who we are. Beyond the work presented each week, it will also be an opportunity to explore a place that is an integral part of me. On My Maps, you’ll be able to add your own places according to the weekly theme, so together we can uncover different facets of the world without leaving home.
And in week 13 I proposed my final project.
Photo by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash