Amélie du Chalard
We’re thrilled to introduce our latest Artist Showcase for Summer 2025 with Amélie du Chalard—a pioneering gallery that’s been reshaping the contemporary art scene since 2015. Renowned for its bold embrace of abstraction, the gallery curates a compelling mix of emerging and established voices across painting, sculpture, photography, and beyond.
Much like Sister, Amélie du Chalard is rooted in storytelling and thoughtful curation. Together, we celebrate the synergy between art and design—where living with art isn't just attainable, but essential.
As part of our collaboration with Amélie du Chalard we are pleased to welcome to Blewcoat:
Michele Landel
Elynor Smithwick
Bonnie Colin
Héloïse Bariol
Héloise Rival
Yoona Hur
Juliette Lemontey
Pilar Angeloglou
"I’m delighted to partner with Amélie du Chalard, whose gallery has long championed the kind of bold, abstract work that resonates deeply with me. At Sister, we’re passionate about crafting spaces where art and design coexist naturally. This collaboration allows us to spotlight a new wave of artists in a truly immersive way. It’s a joy to work alongside a kindred spirit who shares our values of curation and storytelling." Sophie Ashby
Michele Landel
Michele Landel is an American artist based in Sèvres, France, known for her hauntingly poetic patchwork paintings that blend photography, fabric, paper, and thread. Using old bed linens, domestic tools, and tone-on-tone embroidery, she explores themes of power, memory, and the female gaze through stitched-over figures, faded flowers, and mirrored spaces. Her work evokes a delicate tension between connection and disintegration, echoing the monotony and quiet rebellion of domestic life. Influenced by Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, and Mary Oliver, Landel uses textile as both material and metaphor to challenge traditional fibre arts and reassert the often-silenced female perspective. Her art has been exhibited internationally, featured in The Collage Ideas Book, and recognised with awards such as the Surface Design Association’s 2018 Innovative Technique Award.
Elynor Smithwick
Elynor Smithwick is an Australian painter whose quiet, nostalgic oil paintings draw on personal experience, cinema, and the soft aesthetics of film to explore the subtle beauty of everyday life. Born in Albury, NSW, and a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, she creates intimate scenes that evoke a strong sense of place—whether a rural landscape or the stillness behind drawn curtains. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows over the past seven years, earning her the Buller Arts Residency Award (2019) and the Macfarlane Fund Residency Award (2020). She currently lives and works in New South Wales.
Héloïse Bariol
Héloïse Bariol is a ceramic artist based in Rouen, France, whose work centres on everyday objects like bowls, plates, and pitchers. Through these functional forms, she explores the interplay between shape, color, and space, blurring the boundaries between utility and sculpture, painting and volume, design and craft. Tableware serves as her foundation—a daily practice and source of reflection, connection, and joy—while also acting as a medium for both personal and shared experiences.
Bonnie Colin
Bonnie Colin, born in 1971 in Longwy, France, is an artist whose creative path has spanned fashion, theater, and textile design. After starting her career at Christian Dior at just 18, she balanced hands-on experience with formal studies at ENSB-A and l’École d’Art de la Glacière in Paris. Her early work in costume and set design included collaborations with the Comédie Française and Opéra Garnier, leading to a pivotal encounter with Christian Lacroix in 1996. Captivated by his opulent aesthetic, she joined his Textile Design Studio in 2001 and continued working with him as a freelancer until 2007. Throughout her career, Colin has also designed textiles for renowned fashion houses including Cacharel, Sonia Rykiel, Chacok, and Guilty Brotherhood in New York. Since 2011, she has lived and worked in the Angers region, where her multidisciplinary background continues to inform her evolving artistic practice.
Héloïse Rival
Héloïse Rival is a multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges art and applied crafts, currently focusing on ceramics. Trained in graphic arts at ENSAD (Strasbourg) and La Cambre (Brussels), her early practice centred on screen printing and data manipulation. She now explores bas-relief as both functional object and narrative surface, blending mythological and biblical imagery with botanical motifs to create a rich, imaginative visual language.
Juliette Lemontey
Juliette Lemontey is a French artist whose practice explores the delicate interplay between presence and absence through raw, textured canvases and solitary, faceless figures. Trained in zinc engraving at the École des Beaux-Arts de Valence, she carries forward the discipline's precision and irreversibility into her painting. Working with self-made tools and pigments, she incorporates aged canvases as both material and meaning, allowing time and imperfections to remain visible. Her compositions, often marked by empty space and muted gestures, invite quiet contemplation—a suspended moment in which the viewer becomes part of the scene. Evoking themes of memory, duality, and the human condition, Lemontey’s work creates a mirror-like tension between body and spirit, stillness and motion, absence and becoming.
