Atelier E.B + Camille Blatrix / Teaser
Beca Lipscombe is a Scottish fashion and textile designer and printmaker, and one half of Atelier E.B.
After studying at Central St Martins, Lipscombe set up her eponymous label and worked in London and Paris, freelancing for companies such as Liberty, Chloé, Stella McCartney and Ann-Sofie Back. Until 2011 she taught on the Master of Fashion and Textiles at Glasgow School of Art, leaving to focus on Atelier E.B.
Lucy McKenzie works with different mediums from painting to installation and creates environments with references in eclectic sources: from propaganda murals in Eastern Europe to the iconography of the Cold War, 1980s pop music or industrial typography.
Lucy McKenzie studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee (Scoltland) and she attends the decorative painting school Van Der Kelen – Logelain (2007-2008), where she was awarded their gold medal. Since 2007 she has collaborated with the textile designer Beca Lipscombe in the design company Atelier E.B. Her work is shown internationally, including recent solo exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago, Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) and a season of projects at The Artist’s Institute (New York).
Camille Blatrix’s sculptures present themselves as artifacts from a near future, emulating the forms of everyday objects while obscuring their own purpose.
Machine-like in their appearance, the surfaces of his works disguise the artist’s labor, as each sculpture combines elements that are industrially fabricated with those that are meticulously handcrafted using a variety of traditional techniques.
In 2018, his work included in group exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Hessel Museum of Art and the CCS Bard Galleries, Annandale-on-Hudson, and MRAC, Serigan. Past solo exhibitions include Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, 2019, Taylor Macklin, Zurich 2018, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, 2017, CCA Wattis, San Francisco. 2016, and Mostyn Museum, Wales 2015. Blatrix participated in the 2015 Lyon Biennale. Camille Blatrix studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 2014, he received the Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard.