b. 1998, London (French-Dutch)

Hello! My name is Apolline.

I’m a visual artist based in London, inspired by Surrealism and residue.

In my current practice, I reframe found debris - drawing out the disappearing environments that once belonged in a city.

I work to elevate materials often encountered as waste: charcoal, studio dust, shards of reflectors on the roadside, fallen petals, excess parts from building projects, old magazines, or the echoes of music played in a particular space and time. Through the mediums of drawing and jewellery, I give these materials a habitat in the human imagination: juxtaposing them with materials widely valued for their alluring and attractive qualities, such as silver and reflective materials. These help me frame emergences born of the conditions of living in a city as worthy of attention.

Traces tend to get lost in our increasingly fast-paced, decaying and digital world. My aim is to draw out scientific research, and inspire new forms of treasuring amidst our growing indifference to the environment’s value systems, so that these traces, often residues of the more-than-human, get to survive our all too abrasive tendencies.