b. 1998, London (French-Dutch)

Apolline is a French-Dutch visual artist living and working in London. Her practice explores traces - a poetic heart of the urban environment. Working primarily across drawing and jewellery, her work elevates landscapes shaped by city life, investigating how new modes of attention, treasuring and environmental sensitivity might emerge from the debris. Residues of the remote, accidents, and organic fledgling existences all appear in her work as latent but powerful insights into the discarded value systems which have led to our current infrastructure of capital convenience, technology, and unadorned buildings. She studied History of Art at the University of Cambridge, where her research-driven approach to making developed alongside a critical engagement with material culture and Surrealism, which more recently has become entwined with an interest in ecological theory. She has exhibited in multiple London-based group exhibitions including the Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead and Battersea, alongside an ongoing rostra of collaborations with film directors, fashion designers, architects and musicians. She is the recipient of the Alan and Karen Grieves Visual Art Award from Trinity Hall and previously held a Senior Art Scholarship at St Paul’s Girls’ School.