“During my residency I experienced three very different distilleries. These resonated with my visual expression, which is inspired by Hollywood film aesthetics, the covers of the New Yorker and American cartoonists of the 1980s. I drew a lot on-site, blending in and soaking up its daily life, and it was very rewarding to highlight the jobs and skills that often live in the shadows.”
1. Louise Laborie
Residency location: USA
Louise studied illustration at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, before discovering comics while on exchange in New York City. Her work explores reality and the imaginary through narrative and wistful images.
2. Clément Clausse
Residency location: Scotland
Clément is an artist and engraver whose work embraces all stages of book design and image printing, whether handmade or digital. He also leads the engraving workshop at Prep’art Paris.
“Observational drawing is the starting point for my work, whether that’s a place, an atmosphere or a person. In Scotland, I mainly concentrated on the people I was able to meet, their gestures within their workplace, the tools and machines they used as well as the places specific to the different distilleries.”
3. Miyuka Schipfer
Residency location: China
Miyuka is a French-Japanese artist based in Paris. Her work explores cultural habits and their aesthetic integration into today’s world, and is based on live drawing – inspired by capturing relatives, intimate surroundings and environments.
“My work is based on live drawing, inspired by capturing relatives, surroundings and environments. The contrast between The Chuan Distillery, in the foothills of Emeishan mountain, and the big city headquarters of Shenzhen and Shanghai showed me the architectural singularity of these sites.”