Gaspard De Gouges

I was born 1971. I grew up in the Rhone Valley in Saint Paul Trois Châteaux, a charming village between Lyon and Marseille.

I studied in Paris. I first studied contemporary history at the University of Paris X Nanterre where I obtained a Bachelor's degree in 1993. Then I entered one of the three best art schools in France, the prestigious Ecole Nationale des Decorative Arts, where I graduated in 1998. I started working as a freelance graphic designer, before being recruited by the Ministry of National Education to teach plastic arts in secondary and higher education. In 2005, I obtained the aggregation, the highest distinction for teachers in France, and in 2017 a Master's degree in educational sciences at the University of Montpellier.
I have been living since 2000 around the city of Nîmes, in Provence, in the south of France. I feel Mediterranean, I have traveled to all the countries of the Mediterranean basin. I am very curious by nature and I am passionate about geography, history, travel, botany, literature, cinema, architecture, plastic arts, museums and heritage.

After my studies in Paris where I discovered contemporary art with Fabrice Hybert, I migrated to Marseilles where I started to paint large format group portraits. These paintings were exhibited in Switzerland in 2005 (Wandelbar gallery, Gstaad), in Monaco from 2003 to 2005 (DML art gallery) and in the Gard from 2003 to 2005 (general views gallery).
I went back to photography intensely in the fall of 2021, a kind of homecoming. Indeed, in the year 2000, I obtained a photographic residence in Alexandria, Egypt, for more than a month where I completed a work on the night in this Arab city. In 2001, I exhibited a photographic work on the theme of the hookah, in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, in French cultural centers, at the days of photography in Damascus, Syria.
Today, in my garden-workshop in the middle of the scrubland and 120 different species of plants, I devote myself with intensity to a new research that synthesizes my tastes for architecture, history, heritage, literature and geography.