Artist · France

Lily Bonnet

Paris, FrancePainting, drawing, ceramics

Born in 1991 and based in Paris, Lily Bonnet works across painting, drawing and ceramics. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, she develops intimate oil paintings from photographs of people close to her, using cropped compositions and held gestures to examine presence, distance and the relation to the other.

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publication · 2015

DNA Design Textile

ENSBA Lyon records Lily Bonnet’s 2015 diploma in textile design and an early body of work developed at the school.

École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon

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project · 2015

Balsan France student commission

Documentation of Lily Bonnet’s student commission for Balsan France and its publication in Archicrée.

ENSBA Lyon

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Born in 1991, Lily Bonnet is an artist based in Paris.

Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, she develops an artistic practice spanning painting, drawing, and ceramics. Working in oil from photographs of those close to her, the starting point of her painting is an act of love.

Oblique gazes, a sudden veil, still faces with oversized ears, bodies lying silently. Through intimate scenes and tightly cropped compositions, she seeks to capture an inner life while exploring her relationship to the other, the enigmatic person before her.

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2015 — DNA Design Textile, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon.

2015 — Balsan France student commission; project published in Archicrée.