Hi! I'm Garance, a freelance illustrator / feminist blogger / Art historian graduate / avid reader.
My academic background comes from classical Humanities and Art History, with a strong interest for text-image relationship and issues related to art on the Web.
If you're into books and drawings, check out these papers dedicated to Mervyn Peake:
- From Pictures to Prose: how Goya and Rembrandt contributed to the Titus Books,
- Reproducing Peake’s MS drawings: some thoughts and suggestions
Mervyn Peake was an amazing British fantasy writer and illustrator whose work I had been eager to dive in since I first read his book Gormenghast. Thanks to the trust and work of Peter Winnington, part of this research has been published in his review dedicated to Mervyn Peake's work, Peake's studies.
If you're more into art and technology, take a look a this awesome project I've been proud to be part of: Cross Lingual Art Spaces on Wikipedia. Along with a team of international and interdisciplinary researcher, we combined Art History knowledge to digital tools to track the visual acceptances of the concept of "Art" on Wikipedia. It took place during a Summer School organized by the Digital Media Initiative of Amsterdam University. French readers, you could also be interested in this paper about 'online Museums without walls', which was published in La Revue de l'art n°182.
For two years, I worked for Glose.com, a Paris-based startup whose mission is to build a new kind of digital reading experience. As an enthusiast early-adopter and their Community Lead, I met with many passionate readers, authors, publishers, teachers. Together, we brainstormed daily about how the digital world could help people not only have an easier access to books, but also connect with each other and share knowledge.
And for a bit more than a year now, I have been pursuing a life-long dream to allocate more time to drawing and personal projects. As a Freelance illustrator, I have been thrilled
and proud to work on projects such as The Scrooge Mystery. It's an independent and
crowdfunded documentary directed by Morgann Gicquel, with a focus on the comic artist Don Rosa, who happens to be a childhood hero of mine. For this project, I
designed the visual for the poster and the lettering for the chapter titles. I also spent several months doing illustrations for Riddle Me
This, a brain-teasing motion-design show produced by Jellysmack. If you're into riddles, pop-culture and puns, you'll definitely enjoy the show.
Last but not least, in January 2018 I launched Livres de Femmes, a blog (French only) dedicated to sharing more reviews and book recommendations of books written by women. It comes with an occasional podcast (French).
If you'd like to be in touch, you can send me an email here or on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Medium.
