Simone Pheulpin
(French, b. 1941)

"Untitled"

pleated fabric sculpture
on a slate panel, an "Artcurial/Paris 2013" label en verso.
5-7/8" x 5-7/8"

Provenance: Simone Pheulpin, Paris 2012 Artcurial; Estate of Thomas B. Lemann, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Literature: Amy Serafin, "After 40 years in craft, French textile artist Simone Pheulpin is finally making her point.", Wallpaper*, September 2018.

Notes: If the fabric doesn't want to go in the place that I'd like, I'll do what it wants. It's always the fabric that wins, it's never me.
Simone Pheulpin
Wallpaper

A self-taught textile artist, Pheulpin was inspired by the raw, unbleached cotton fabric she used to line her children's clothes. Utilizing fabric from a local manufacturer in her native Vosges, she carefully and painstakingly twists, folds and pleats the strips, holding them in place with hundreds of metal pins. The results are reminiscent of natural forms - shells, flora, the swirls of wood grain. Pheulpin was the recipient of the Grand Prix de la Creation de la Ville de Paris and her works are in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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