james michele
Plasticienne/Graveuse
Michèle JAMES
FRANCE
https://michelejames.les-plasticiens.fr/
https://michelejames.ultra-book.com/
http://michelejames.book-folio.fr/
http://empreinte04.org
Plastic Arts studies, Fine Arts and plastic arts, (Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris)
Since 1981, Plastic Arts teacher in a French high-school
Exhibitions, both in France and abroad. (Argentina, Germany, Canada, USA, Japan, Australia, Spain, England, Italy, United Arab Emirates …)
Recent exhibitions
2026
Azimut Gallery, Aix-en-Provence (France)
2025
- Awagami Factory, Inbe Gallery (Japan)
- Cultura Friulana Auditorium, Gorizia (Italy)
-Résonances, Cour de Créateurs, Salon (France)
- Print festival, Cave de l’ours, Meyrargues (France)
-The Worlds of Engraving, Espace Liberté Gallery, Crest (France)
-Limay Biennale, Portfolio Exhibition, Limay (France)
2024
-The Makers studio, « Birds and blooms », Chittaway Bay (Australie)
-Printed correspondences « Architectures », Manosque (France)
- Irohani gallery, Osaka (Japon)
- Kyoto Artzone Kaguraoka, Kyoto (Japon)
-Metropolitan Theater, Tokyo (Japon)
-The 3rd TKO (Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka) International Miniprint (Japan).
-Château de Simiane : « Women and Baroque music », Simiane-La-Rotonde (France)
- « la couleur des jours » collective exhibition Empreinte 04, Sainte-Tulle (France)
- « De la nature » collective exhibition Empreinte 04, Entrevennes Gallery (France)
- « Graver l’imaginaire » collective exhibition, Lambesc (France)
2023
-Voûte des Arts, Collective Exhibition, Pierrevert (France)
-Awagami International Miniprint, Tokushima (Japan)
-Akane Gallery, Miniprint, Samer (France)
-Raymond Lafage Museum, World Engraving Triennial , Lisle sur Tarn (France)
2022
-BIMPE IX, Visual Space Gallery, Biennial International Miniprint, Vancouver (Canada)
-5th New York International Miniature Print Exhibition (Usa)
-Associative Gallery (« Mois de l’estampe »), Beauvais (France)
-« Senza frontiere, senza barriere », Villa Benzi Zecchini, Trévise (Italy)
2021
-Collective exhibition : Port-Folio « A l’attaque », Atelier de la Grette, Besançon (France)
- 11th International Print Triennial, Chamalières, France-Fine Arts Gallery, the International Miniprint of Kazanlak, Bulgary
-The hall of Awa Japanese paper, Inbe Space, Tokushima (Japan)
-Associative Gallery, Beauvais (France)
-Open door workshop, Arnouville (France)
2020
-4°International Biennial Miniprint, Santa Fe (Argentine)
-8° international Biennial Miniprint, Ottawa School of Art (OSA), Ottawa (Canada)
-Huis Clos, le Majorat Gallery, Villeneuve Tolosane (France) Awarded at the print competition
- Collective exhibition, Ailleur’s studio, Paris (France)
-« Printmaking whithout borders »,Villa Benzi Zecchini, Trévise (Italy)
-4th miniprint Biennial, « Red Dot Art Consultancy »Anteros Arts work foundation, Norwich (England)
2019
Associative Gallery, Beauvais (France)
-19th Biennial of Sarcelles (France)
-Artspace, Woodbridge (England)
-Manhattan Graphic Center, 4th International Print Exhibition, New-York (Usa)
-The hall of Awa Japanese paper, Inbe Space, Tokushima (Japan)
-Usine Utopik, Tessy-Bocage (France)
-The Garage Gallery, Aldeburgh, Suffolk (England)
-Prieuré Saint-Arnoult (France)
-Town Hall, Bad Ems, (Germany)
-Bonn, City Library(Germany)
-Bonn, Königswinter, Studio Gallery(Germany)
-Municipal library, Les Matelles (France)
- Cultural center Cologne-Mülheim (Germany)
--« 5th Enter to art », Bernkastel-Kues, Nicholas de Cusa Museum (Germany)
-Snap Gallery, Edmonton (Canada)
2018
- Not So Mini Exchange and Exhibition, Alberta Printmakers Gallery, Calgary (Canada)
-Associative Gallery, Beauvais (France)
-Heike Gallery, Miniprint Berlin 2018, Berlin (Germany)
-FINA Art Gallery, University British Columbia, Kelowna (Canada)
- City Hall , collective exhibition, Clermont ( France)
-Dundarave Print Workshop & Gallery, Vancouver (Canada)
-Biennial International miniature Print Exhibition ( Bimpe), Vancouver (Canada)
-4th print biennial, tank Arts Center, Cairns (Australia)
-Associative Gallery, Beauvais (France)
-2e International Print Biennial, Dreux, France
- Raymond Lafage Museum, 4th Etching Print Triennial, Lisle sur Tarn (France)
-2nd Annual International Miniature Printmaking Exhibition 2017, Dubaï Art Print Week (United Arab Emirates)
Distinctions :
-Le Majorat Gallery, Villeneuve-Tolosane (Award-winning)
TOWN PRIZE
-Salon des artistes du Beauvaisis, City Hall Beauvais (France)
PEOPLE’S PRIZE
- Not So Mini Exchange and Exhibition, Alberta Printmakers Gallery, Calgary (Canada)
HONOURABLE MENTION
-BIMPE VIII (Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition), Vancouver (Canada)
FIRST PRICE
-26th Salon Artistique Fitz-James, (France)
Public and private collections
-Bibliothèque Nationale de France (livres d’artistes) Paris (France)
-Departmental Museum, Beauvais (France)
-Association Mouvement d’Art Contemporain (AMAC), Chamalières (France)
-Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto (Japan)
-Ville de Sarcelles (France)
-Japan Prints Association, Tokyo (Japan)
-Art Sakima Museum, Okinawa (Japan )
-Prints collection Graver maintenant (France)
-Department of Art, University of Oregon, Corvallis (USA)
-TKO (Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka) International Print Collection (Japan)
-Artbook Edition with Marc Pessin from poems by Nicolae Labis, Marc Pessin’s Studio, Saint-Laurent-du-Pont (France)
Artistic trajectory
After years of painting and drawing, I have dedicated myself almost exclusively to engraving, in particular etching and wood engraving. I enjoy techniques that capture the marks of the present but also superimpose those of the past.
Etching gives me the ability to show the passage of time and the memory of things gone by. The path is often long from the beginning (creation of the plate) to the end (printing). Our intentions are sometimes contradicted by our materials (acids or other toxic chemicals, the resistance of the wood), but for my perspective, this tension allows me to express myself more deeply. I am also interested in the relationship between drawing and writing and in Inuit art. I often develop my works in series (as folds, landscapes, characters, alphabets) and artistic books (Racines du silence, Légendes inuit, Spirale, Lumière de l’ombre, etc.).
My current research revolves around writing, and probes at the limit of abstraction and figure (using human forms, animals and various alphabets).