Pauline-Rose Dumas works and lives in Paris. Born in 1996
Pauline-Rose Dumas is a french textile artist who currently works at Le6B Saint-Denis “Lieux de creation et de diffusion” (Paris, FR) an industrial building in the north suburb of Paris converted into shared ateliers. After graduating from a BA in Textile Design at theUAL Chelsea College of Arts (London, UK) in 2019, she finished earlier this year a 6 months residency at the Berlin Art Institute (Berlin, DE). There she developed her textile practise into big scale pieces, half way between sensitive moving images and sculpture. These pieces were presented at her first solo exhibition “Yesterdays” at the BAI. Pauline-Rose has previously worked for the artistand designer Marlène Huissoud (Paris, FR / 2019), interned at Hermès (Paris, FR/ 2018) and worked as a lithography printer at Idem (Paris, FR / 2016). She was immersed and trained with craftsmen before dedicating herself to her own artistic practise.
“The textile medium enables me to tell a story, my story, and through it, a story of the transmission of know-how. For me, the actions of sewing, printing, assembling and repairing bear a strong symbolic significance. In an approach similar to choreography, these gestures can expand intimate moments and render the multiplicity of the images we are surrounded by. Textile is an intervention that opens the image or the sculpture to a sensory dimension”.
EDUCATION
2016 - 2019 BA (Hons) Textile Design graduated with Honours, at UAL Chelsea College of Arts / London, UK
2014 - 2016 Art Foundation at Atelier de Sèvres / Paris, FR
SOLO SHOW
2020 "JOURNÉES D'HIER", Project space 404 | Berlin Art Institute / Berlin, DE (February)
GROUP SHOW
2020 "STEPPING BACK TO LOOK FORWARD", The Spot Paris / Paris, FR (May)
2019 "A DOOR TO ONE'S ROOM", UAL Chelsea College of Arts, Degree Show / London, UK (June)
2018 STROUD Textile Fair / Stroud, UK (May)
2018 PREMIÈRE VISION / Paris, FR (February)
RESIDENCY
2020 LE6B, Lieux de création et de diffusion / Saint-Denis, FR (June - September)
2020 BERLIN ART INSTITUTE, Studio Program / Berlin, DE (October - February)
AWARD
2019 KUNA, Textile Competition, Commendation award
Creation of a textile collection with Alpaca fibre in collaboration with the Peruvian brand Kuna
2018 SUSTAINABLE DESIGN, Commendation award
As part of the Center of Circular Design at UAL Chelsea College of Arts
2017 FASHION PROJECT, First prize winner
As part of UAL Chelsea College of Arts
PROFESSIONAL
2020 STUDIO MARLÈNE HUISSOUD / Fontainebleau, FR (July - September)
2019 STUDIO MARLÈNE HUISSOUD, Assistant for "PLEASE STAND BY" presented at the London Design Festival / Paris, FR - London, UK (July- September)
2019 STUDIO MARLÈNE HUISSOUD, Textile Designer - Collaboration with CC TAPIS / Paris, FR (July)
2018 HERMÈS, Textile Designer / Paris, FR (June-July)
2016 IDEM, Assistant Lithography Printer / Paris, FR (May-July)