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Exploring themes of the body and identity, Camille Cottier’s ‘Les Bonshommes’ have been developed for over ten years to get to their most recent abstract, contemporary form today.
Camille Cottier graduated from the Fine Arts school in Angers, France, in 2013. The preliminary focus of Cottier’s work is body politics and individuality as she navigates her own practice in relation to contemporary society and the art world.
Cottier’s striking forms and abstract, gestural bodies present to us a series of distorted figures in bold colour palettes. Often impassive in expression, these figures are a part of a long line of characters in her ‘Les Bonshommes’ series.
In 2014, Cottier’s ‘Les Bonshommes’ series was born as she began to question her relationship between herself and the people around her - interrogating where her representation situated her position in society largely contributed to her interests in identity and form. These figures have evolved throughout the past ten years to have a more abstract expression as this gives her more freedom to redefine bodies in a way that is both human and other worldly, monstrous and delicate.
These juxtapositions of form are crucial to Cottier’s practice as her paintings are instinctual. Through using the act of creating as a personal outlet, she doesn’t think about how individuals will notice her work but rather how they will be impacted. Either negatively or positively, any reaction is a success.
Proving both painful and sweet, Cottier believes that women artists experience less access to the art world and so they need to work harder to break glass ceilings and be noticed in the industry. She has seen a movement for female artists to be as visible as men, but it will only be proven to be fact when we no longer need to mention the gender of the artist.
Camille Cottier has been involved in solo exhibitions in Paris and Brussels and has also taken part in group exhibitions such as Origins here at RHODES and PANEL Rose at Dumonteil Contemporary Gallery in Paris.
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UNTITLED ART
Miami, Booth B20 3 - 8 Dec 2024Presenting these artists and more on our stand offers the gallery a prime opportunity to engage with the key US art market and its collectors as well as afford our...Read more -
Project Room: You Are Not Alone
Camille Cottier 8 - 23 Nov 2024Camille Cottier’s artistic journey began during her degree studies, where she focused on the physical limits of the human body. Through self-portraiture, she experimented with photography, video, and drawing, using...Read more -
Embraced: A Lived Experience
Group Exhibition 4 Jul - 31 Aug 2024Embraced explores the intricacies of the human form, offering a nuanced perspective on intimacy by capturing fleeting moments that reveal the essence of the subjects' lives. Through the presented works,...Read more -
Origins
Group Exhibition 1 Dec 2023 - 27 Jan 2024Paper is often the first medium an artist uses when developing their creative process or planning a larger scale piece. It is the works Origin , a sketch or scribble...Read more
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Women's History Month at RHODES
Spotlighting a handful of the incredible female artists we represent March 19, 2025RHODES is dedicated to supporting and uplifting emerging artists, many of whom are women. March 2025 is Women’s History Month, so here’s a highlight of...Read more -
RHODES Editions at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2024
RHODES Editions will be showcasing at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (WCPF) 21st - 24th November 2024 October 23, 2024RHODES Editions is delighted to be at Booth 5 for this year’s Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair , 21- 24 November 2024. Join us at the...Read more -
Painting in Monochromic Colour.
Exploring The Monochromatic Use of Colour in Works by Grace Tobin, Cathy Tabbakh, Marius Seidlitz, Camille Cottier and Molly Brocklehurst. March 26, 2024When we speak about art with a monochromatic colour pallet, we often immediately think of works in black and white – much like our current...Read more
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