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.

I work to elevate materials often encountered as trace: charcoal, studio dust, shards of reflectors on the roadside, fallen petals, excess 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 often juxtapose these traces with materials widely valued for their alluring and attractive qualities - I use silver and reflective thread to shed light on the fledgling instances born of an inner-city context. Here, amidst our growing indifference to the environment’s value systems, textures and details tend to get lost in our increasingly fast-paced and digital age. My aim is to call on our willingness to treasure such instances at all, so that there is a future where we continue to acknowledge what we erode in kind.