b. 1998, London (French-Dutch)

Apolline is a French-Dutch visual artist born and raised in London. Her practice explores traces - as a poetic arm of the urban environment. Working primarily across drawing and jewellery, her work elevates residues shaped by city life, investigating how new modes of attention, treasuring and environmental sensitivity might emerge from the debris. For her, these residues harbour powerful insights into the discarded value systems which continue to emerge in an age of capital gain, convenience and technology. She studied History of Art at the University of Cambridge, where her research-driven approach to making developed alongside a critical engagement with material culture and Surrealism, and most recently, ecological theory. She has exhibited in multiple independent and London-based group exhibitions including the Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead and Battersea, and continues to maintain an active and diverse collaborative practice spanning music, film, fashion, architecture and poetry. She is the recipient of the Alan and Karen Grieves Visual Art Award from Trinity Hall and previously held a Senior Art Scholarship at St Paul’s Girls’ School.