artist/ Manuèle Bernardi

France

Born in Saint-Tropez in 1959, Manuèle Bernardi lives and works in Roussillon. She trained at the Académie Roederer and attended evening classes at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. She worked in set design, costume and illustration before turning, in 1990, to her own artistic practice through drawing and sculpture.
In 2014, she began creating installations enclosed in Perspex. Observing nature and gathering materials with the seasons became central to her practice. Seeds, flowers, roots and twigs feature in her compositions alongside other materials, including paper and glass.
In 2021, she presented her first embroidered works on paper, combining plant materials with cotton thread. Thread thus plays a part both in her three-dimensional works and on the surface of paper.
Her work has been exhibited in France and abroad, including Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada and the United States.