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 and draw out the disappearing environments that once belonged, and want to belong in, a city.

Through drawing and jewellery, I work to elevate materials often encountered as remnants: charcoal, studio dust, shards of reflectors on the roadside, fallen petals, excess from building projects, old magazines, the memory of music played in a particular spaces and time - juxtaposing these with materials widely valued for their alluring and attractive qualities. I use silver and reflective materials to shed light on such fledgling instances in an inner-city context. Amidst our growing indifference to the environment’s value systems, my aim is to call on our willingness to treasure such instances at all. These are the materials which adorn our city - textures and details increasingly lost to our digital age.