Katell Gelebart

Born and raised in France
Lives in Mallorca

As an ecodesigner, my passion is to show the potential of waste and how it can be transformed into a design item. “My creations are born in different cultural environment around the globe, with ”what is already there and act as a “ social impulse “ to inspire communities in their choices for change: social, environmental and a greater awareness".

I have transposed my vision of re using material into the field of graphics and visuals.
I use collage as a method for creating a new narrative Giving new meaning to photos, words, graphics, illustrations and mixing them all together into a poetic new reality.



Technic and why ?
By making collages, I like to promote Low tech’ means such as scissors and simple glue. The environmental impact is reduced. This is the way I work : gathering visuals of all kinds for their qualities - graphics or colors (magazines, flyers, old books, paper bags, wrapping, wall paper, food packaging), then delicately cutting them out to create a bank of images and intuitively, associating images, forms, graphics, signs, letters, words together…no knew material is created to make these works of art.

I am autodidact, ecodesigner and pluridisciplinary artist,

Recipient of the KAIROS Price , the European Cultural Award by the A.Toepfer foundation in Germany to honor me “as a creative visionary revisiting what’s already there.” in 2012

2012 . solo retrospective show WAS DA IST at the MK&G (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe) in Hamburg, Germany.