Glazed ceramic table or stool by Marie-Lucie Trinquand, 2025.
Artist signature under the base. 2025. Unique piece.
H : 23.4 x 12.2 x 11.4 inches.
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Born in 1960 in France, she lives and works in Coulanges-sur-Yonne.
Marie-Lucie Trinquand graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d’Art in Paris 15th arrondissement, specializing in ceramic design. Her work revolves around notions of containment and architecture, exploring the transition from the intimate to the monumental, from objects that fit in the palm of the hand to sculptural edifices.
Her pieces — double-walled bowls, landscape boxes, anthropomorphic bottles, seats, sculptures, and monuments — reflect a consistent drive: building, layering plans, enclosing empty space, structuring forms, inlaying signs, and preserving traces of gesture. She considers herself a custodian of mineral, vegetal, or human memory, creating links between material and history.
Her works question and surprise: open while enclosing air, symmetrical yet sometimes slightly asymmetrical, angular and abrupt while remaining soft and taut. The combination of different textures and colors of stoneware, porcelain, or other materials gathered from nature produces unexpected encounters and gives form to the invisible.
In 2005, her meeting with ceramist Jean-Michel Doix marked a turning point in her practice. Together, they developed collaborative creations, combining their ceramics while asserting their differences, as seen in the series Terres dressées, demeures perchées (2007) or the tribute sculpture to Jean Carriès (2010).
They also created a mural for the church of Saint-Aubin, Village of Artists and Traditions (2011). As part of the renovation of the town hall square in Coulanges-sur-Yonne (2012), she designed the commemorative monument, while Doix and sculptor Yves Varanguin installed a monumental fountain. She also created the memorial monument at La Maison-Dieu (58), inaugurated on November 11, 2016.