Cielle Graham

I'm a French New-Zealander artist, illustrator and world wanderer passionate about all things organic and living.

Born in 1987 in Brittany, France, I grew up high in the French Alps and I have always been fond of that vast sense of space. Spending a lot of time in nature, collecting creatures, making things out of my findings, tracking animals in the forest, observing their behaviors and imagining how it would be to live like one of them.

After studying visual art and animation in Angoulême at the Ecole des Metiers du Cinema d'Animation (EMCA) animation school and graduating in 2009. I decided to put my visual arts on hold.
The reality of the animation and television industry being removed from dreams of a more sustainable and human world and took up a farming course to get in touch with a way of life rooted in tradition, people and land. Motivated to work with my hands, in the outdoors, with something tangible and living.

In doing the farming, as with my artwork, I realized much of what enjoy takes great care and patience, often time consuming and not always financially sustainable. So I threw in the towel and got in line to work in the animation industry.

Quickly feeling like life was on hold and going nowhere, I...

2011 Farm Management (dairy, livestock, extensive hearding, animal draught power, forestry)

2009 Assistant Director in Animated films certificate, Ecole Des Metiers du Cinema d'Animation (EMCA), Angouleme FR

2018 “Delusional” group show at Jonathan LeVine Project, Jersey City NJ, USA
2018 Group show "Music Box III" at Haven Gallery, NY, USA
2017 Group show "Peopled Places" at Helikon Gallery, CO, USA
2016 Salon National des Artistes Animaliers, FR
2015 Salon National des Artistes Animaliers, FR