Aurélie Moreau calls herself a citizen of the Universe, a daughter of the Sun and of the Ocean.

 

She was born and raised in Paris alternately by her mother, a painter, her father, an architect, and an uncle who was a painter and engraver, and who very early on initiated her into the secrets of drawing, with daily exercises.

 

At the age of 13, she was already working with clay. After high school, she attended “l’Ecole de Beaux Arts” in Paris for three years, then “l’Académie de la Grande Chaumière” for one year.

 

She worked in architecture for a while, which she found very enlightening. At the same time, she met with the French sculptor René Coutelle and started carving stone under his tutellage in his workshop/garden in Paris’ 20th district. She also practiced African dance in Le Marais.After this, she gave up architecture and went back to sculpture. Aurélie is constantly striving to express deep feelings or visions through her art.

 

She speaks all the langages of sculpture: giving permanency to a concept with clay, then translating it with bronze; carving wood, giving life to stone.

 

Her recurrent themes are reflection, balance, taking flight, elevation, water, the Universe, opening up. 

 

She lives and works in Lyon, France where she also teaches the rudiments of sculpture.

About water, one of her major themes, she says:

“Water is poured from one container to the other. Water dissolves in water.

Water always returns to its sources or to the sea.”