Cheeky faces by Anne-Valérie Dupond at the Affordable Art Fair until 25 October

Just look at these cheeky yet adorable faces.  They are Animal Trophies by French artist/textile sculpturist Anne-Valérie Dupond.

Made in fabrics, wadding, cardboard, buttons, trimming and beads, these wall-hanging Animal Trophies measuring 20 x 15 x 24 inches / 51x 38 x 61 cm are currently on show at The Affordable Art Fair under DECORAZON gallery now at  London’s Battersea Park until 25^th October.

Anne-Valérie Dupond, born in 1976, studied at Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg, and obtained her Master’s degree in Fine Arts in 2000.

Since 2001, Dupond has worked with Parisian Gallery Edgar, and until 2011, with Dufay-Bonnet Gallery, also in Paris.

Not only has Dupond’s work been exported around the world, but she has collaborated on numerous high profile projects, including fashion houses such as Kenzo, Undercover, Le Printemps, and Comme des Garçons, which is quite evident in her body of work, “Travaux de Couture”.

“My work is making sculptures with fabrics. I’m working simply with recovered fabrics, needle and thread. I try to create a world crafted from sensitivity, ranging from the bestial (hunting trophies and animals of all kinds) to human representations such as busts of historic figures, pin-ups, and baroque sculpture. Whatever the representation, I like to approach the female/male duality with humour, playfully caricaturizing the stereotypes.” 

Anne-Valérie Dupond currently lives and works in France, and is represented by the  DECORAZON gallery.

All photos here by Lucia Carpio for My Fashion Connect.