Véronique Devoldère

Her work is about process based on research and materials, conventional or unconventional, with a specific focus on the practice of drawing. In 1990 she was a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Recent Exhibitions: regularly in France and abroad (Australia, UK and Germany). She is represented by the Gallery Benninger in Cologne. Recent exhibitions include, “Elephant” Espace 15 in Paris, a curatorial project and exhibition, “Phantom Limn”, a residency and exhibition at the Dovecot Galleries in Edinburgh, “We Drew a Garden, a drawing performance in collaboration with Chloe Briggs, “Plasticiennes, Femmes, Textes” and “Mots Brodés”, a collaboration since 2013 with the students at the Bamrouli Fashion Crafts School in Uttah, Pradesh, India. In 2014 she was part of the group exhibition “Personal Histories” at the Redland Museum in Cleveland, Australia. ‘The Nabakov Paper’, exhibition at Shandy Hall, Coxwold and publication conceived by Kate Briggs, Information as Material, York, U.K. Reviewed in Art Monthly, Dec/Jan 2013/2014. Recent publications she contributed to include: “The Nabokov Paper” an experiment in novel-reading, published by Information as Material, and “Collection 4 - Art & Design Education”, an essay abo...

Artist and educator. Education: BA (1986) in Fine Arts in printmaking and painting from Connecticut College, and a MFA (1989) in “Image Imprimée” (printmaking) from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Work History: involved in art education since graduating from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. She has worked in many art schools in Paris (including: ENSAD and Parsons Paris) and at PCA for over fifteen years. She has extensive experience teaching all levels of drawing at the Bachelor’s level. She designed and teaches ‘Junior Studio Concepts’ and ‘Senior Studio Concepts’. In 2009 she was appointed to create a bilingual French-English foundation course based on the European model, called Atelier of Art. It is a one-year fine arts program designed to prepare students for international degree schools.
Since 2011 Chair of Fine Arts and the Masters in drawing at PCA and responsible for changing and developping the entire fine arts curriculum introducing new courses and teaching methods.
Workshop instructor for Off School in Paris. She regularly organizes conferences and workshops, most recently:
PCA Talk series with Diogo Pimentao in 2017, I wish I could draw with Nina Paim a confere...

Selected exhibitions & projects
2017 “Elephant” , Espace 15 , Paris College
of Art, group show
2017 “Phantom Limn; a collaborative investigation
into drawing”
Dovecot Gallery - Edinburgh
2017 “I wish I could draw” a practical
study of drawing manuals in collaboration
with curator Nina Paim - drawing
project, exhibition and conference -
PCA Paris
2016 “We drew a garden : A drawing
collaboration” - PCA Paris
2015 “Personal Histories” Redland Museum
and Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland
Australia
Group show, including 19 pieces from
the Notebook 1921archive project
2014 “Plasticiennes, Femmes, Textes”,
Cathrine Winsnes’ Studio, Paris
Group show presenting a selection of
embroidered words
2013-2014 “Plasticiennes, Femmes,
Textes”, collaboration with the Association
Sruti and the students from the
“Bamrouli Fashion Crafts School”, Uttar
Pradesh, India.
Embroidered words form the Notebook
1921archive project
2013 “The Nabokov Paper” Shandy
Hall, York, UK
Group show and book launch, including
the video and handsawn drawings
2013 “The Foundation Course in Art
and Design: A Future Imagined”participation
at a series of workshops in collaboration
with Tate Modern, GB, Paris
College of Art
2011 “ Floating Tho...