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2019 marked a decisive turning point for Séverine Boullé Tyack – it was the year she discovered ceramics. Already immersed in a creative universe, dividing her talents between boutique staging, interior decoration and textile design, she was seduced by this intensely tactile medium.“ I fell in love with the material, the sensation and the emotion I felt when shaping the clay,” she says. From that moment, everything followed naturally, culminating in a solo exhibition, Sépia, at the Caudan Arts Centre in 2022.
Since then, Séverine has taken part in several group exhibitions: The Fine Art X Design Expo, organised by Shay Hewett and The Hive Marketplace, Krea’ terre- a ceramics and pottery festival inviting artists to experiment with Mauritian clay- and WILD! 2024, the Samudra Art Prize. For the latter, she created‘ Flore Salée’, an installation focused on preserving the ecosystem of the Black River Salt Pans.
Séverine loves imperfect curves and the fragility they exude. Her work reflects this awareness through organic forms that evoke both plant and mineral elements. Constantly inspired by the nature that surrounds her on the west coast, she collects washed up corals from the beach, their beauty surviving despite breakage; dry grasses from the savannah, acacia prickles and blackwood seeds that she dries and preserves in jars or herbariums. A thousand and one found objects enrich her imagination, because for Séverine,“ everything is a source of inspiration” Passionate about second-hand objects and, more broadly, things“ that have a life of their own, that tell a story”, she sometimes creates installations that evoke the spirit of a curiosity cabinet.
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The artist approaches her work intuitively- a modus operandi that suits her perfectly, liberating her from overly rigid production imperatives in favour of free-flow.“ I let myself be guided by the clay, I like shaping it, digging into it, sculpting it, giving it raw textures or an aged, patinated look, like the vintage objects I hunt for”. Although she gives new life to her ceramic works, Séverine doesn’ t hesitate to celebrate the effects of time as it passes and leaves its mark- a nod to the Japanese concept of Wabi-sabi, centred around impermanence and imperfection.
Séverine puts it bluntly: ceramics has changed her life.“ This medium has allowed me to express myself, and today I feel fully at home in this world. At peace and grounded”. Her work invites us to reconnect with what’ s essential- we can’ t wait for her next exhibition.
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