Born in Marseilles in 1957, Agnès Debizet studied literature before taking up sculpture somewhat by chance, as she was introduced to the discipline during an evening class organized by the City of Paris. It was there that she discovered the art of working with clay, which she immediately mastered, using it to create works straight out of her abundant imagination. She went on to train with Albert Minot and first showed her work in 1989 in a medieval cloister in the heart of the French capital.  

Agnès Debizet inspirations come from antique civilizations of the Middle East and Latin America, as well as the natural world. Her series include“Roots,”“Trees,”“Morels”and“Creatures.”Yet, she is perhaps best known for her“Entrelacs” (“Interlacing”) works, which feature beautifully sinuous, intertwining bands. Another particularity of many of her pieces is their size, which often stretches to beyond two metres in height.

Agnès Debizet career path has been very personal. For decades, she was driven solely by the desire to create and tell stories through her art. She has also devised her very own approach to ceramics. She creates her forms using the coiling technique and works with stoneware covered with a layer of porcelain before firing. Available in a variety of formats, but always on a human scale, Agnès Debizet dreamy, curvaceous creations are halfway between decoration and furniture.