Supporting art and young artists
Our partnership with the renowned École des Arts Décoratifs builds on our long history of supporting creativity and young artists in France.
Started in 2023, our collaboration sees recent graduates from the school undertake two-month residencies in one of our global markets - bringing Pernod Ricard’s brands, people and places to life in their own unique way.
A place of intellectual, creative and artistic endeavours for more than 250 years, the school’s vocation is to train future artists and designers to be the creators and “transformers” of the world of tomorrow.
In this second year of this partnership, we welcomed Mathilde Leroy, Salomé Perez and Thomas Trichet - who completed residencies in India, France and Mexico respectively.
Selected by a panel based on the strength of their portfolios, each artist had the opportunity to observe our people and operations first hand, illustrating their subjects in the vibrant and creative ways you can see throughout this report. You can read more about each artist’s background and distinctive style on the following page.
Emmanuel TiblouxDirecteur de l’École des Arts Décoratifs
Three views of the world… Three new visual narratives told in 60 images - that’s what the graduates from the École des Arts Décoratifs bring to life in this annual report. For the second consecutive year, three young artists have explored three important territories for Pernod Ricard, to capture the nuances of a global sociability. From Latin America to South Asia, these artistic residencies have weaved a delicate atlas of the Group’s convivial spirit.
Taught not to conform to a static world, but to give shape to one in motion, the graduates of the École des Arts Décoratifs once again demonstrate the creative power of young artists. For two and a half months, each artist applied their own personal visual language to observe and reformulate the strong and weak signals of cultural and social dynamics at play. Using illustration to capture the counter-globalisation of human interactions through encounters with people and landscapes: that is the unique and singular gesture made by these three artists in 2024.
Thomas Trichet, an animated film graduate, illustrates Mexico using a two-pronged approach, oscillating between documentary-like realism and cinematic vision, where human figures are skillfully juxtaposed against arid landscapes. Mathilde Leroy, from the Printed Image department, breathes vibrant energy into her visions of a fantastical India, where endless festivities are enveloped in a palpable heat. In France, Salomé Perez, also a Printed Image graduate, traces the contours of the country’s delicate topographies, from Champagne to Cognac to Marseille.
A medium for wandering thoughts and fleeting moments, this year’s illustrations once again capture the global spirit of the people behind Pernod Ricard. A free form of expression, unaffected by cultural and geographical distance, illustration creates a unique dialogue between the mundane and the extraordinary, craftspeople and office workers, world cities and barren landscapes.
Discover these ephemeral moments of human warmth - the very essence of the Group - as they join the collection of illustrations which started in 2023 with the United States, Scotland and China. Pay close attention to the many signs and voices of the times, reinventing our art of living from India, Mexico and France.
Emmanuel Tibloux Directeur de l’École des Arts Décoratifs