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BIOGRAPHY
I do not create for the pleasure of the eyes, but to tell a story."
Sandrine Plante is a French realistic figurative sculptor whose life and work are dedicated to preserving and transmitting African memories "ORIGINS", from ancient times to the present day. Born in 1974 in the Puy-de-Dôme region of France, she is a proud métisse "zoréole," the daughter of a mother from Auvergne and a father from Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
At the age of eight, while struggling with asthma, Sandrine first discovered sculpture. With her hands in clay, she found not only the strength to breathe but also the language of her soul. After completing a baccalaureate in plastic arts and pursuing art history, she studied realistic sculpture, stone carving, and architecture in France before continuing her training in Italy. These foundations equipped her to
transform her gift into an artistic journey of truth-telling an remembrance.
For Sandrine, art transcends aesthetics - it is activism, memory, and testimony. Through her sculptures, she pays tribute to her ancestors and seeks to awaken pride in younger generations for the richness of their heritage. She honors healers, nomads, and original cultures, while also confronting the profound trauma of the triangular trade and slavery, and their lasting repercussions on contemporary society. To her, "A people without a history is like a tree without roots."
Guided by visions from her nocturnal dreams, she sculpts without models or photographs, drawing instead from historical writings and her extensive travels across continents. Each of her works breathes life into those who came before, granting them tangible eternity.
Her commitment and artistry have been recognized with multiple honors, quotation Drout, including the Vermeil Medal of the Académie des Arts, Sciences et Lettres of France. Today, her works stand in prestigious museums and historic sites worldwide, including:
Legacy Museum, Montgomery, Alabama (5 works)
Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, Montgomery, Alabama (5 works)
Musée de Villèle, Réunion Island
• Savane des Esclaves, Martinique (16 works)
European Blues Museum, France
• |sle of Gorée, Senegal
Municipal Gardens, City of Bordeaux, France
City of Pont-de-Claix, France
Sandrine Plante dedicates her life to giving voice and form to memory. Her sculptures are not simply objects of beauty, but vessels of truth, resilience, and remembrance - bridges between the past and present, inviting us to look deeper and remember.
Through her workshops for all levels, she conveys a keen sense of realism. For her, it is fundamental not only to grasp and understand the anatomy of the human body but also to imbue it with a deep sense of movement and emotion.
By Tori Reid
MUSEUM
City of Pont de Claix, association garden "Elie" bronze 2021.
Bordeaux city hall garden: "Strange fruit" aqua resin 2019.
Ile de Gorée Senegal Africa "Exode" resin 2019.
Musée de Villèle, chapelle pointue, Reunion Island 2018, "Les 3 frères".
Musée de la Savane des esclaves les 3 Ilets, Martinique 2015 to 2017: 16 creations on Caribbean Indians and plantation slaves including "Le cri", "Awa", "Matika et l'enfant" etc. Terracotta and resin
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EXHIBITIONS
72nd Charenton Exhibition, Ile de France, Espace Art et Liberté
Nov 2025 Coubron Autumn Exhibition, Ile de France, silver medal from the city for the work Aménis
Nov 2025 10th Terre et Flamme Exhibition
Oct 2025 Quotation DROUOT dictionary of artists listed by Drouot
Oct 2025 Salon du Jardin du Bois Fleuri, Yvré le Polin, Géant des Beaux Arts prize
Creation of ORIGINS line of collector T-shirts and bags
Sept 2025 78th ANAF Salon, St Mandé, Val de Marne
Sept 2025 First collaboration with hair designer Murielle Kabile "Divinity of Black" MCB show for the World Hairdressing Championships, Accord Arena
Sept 2025 Pop-up gallery St Maur des fossés, Zoom Actu Wanda Nicot report
June 2025 AFRIKANT'S, artist collective at 100 ECS, Paris Festival des abolitions
May 2025 Traversée avec EUX, educational project involving singing, dancing, and slam poetry by 17 young people from the Maison de la jeunesse La Courneuve, collaboration with Oxalarina and the Kreyol association, based on 16 of my works, report by Eddy Ozier-Lafontaine
May 2025 SAVM exhibition, Villa Médicis, Maison des arts et de la culture, St Maur des fossés, city prize for my work Malia
May 2025 Arts 19 exhibition, sculpture exhibition prize
April 2025 European Artistic Crafts Days, Galerie Quatrième, Clermont-Ferrand
July 2024-January 2025 Face à Face exhibition, Musée de Labenche, Brive
November 2024 Salon de Versailles, Carré de la Farine, Versailles
November 2024 Art 3F with Galerie Quatrième
2023: Festival des abolitions: Mairie 12ème Paris, Bourse du travail Saint- Denis, Mairie de Bobigny.
2020-2023: Maron'Ages Gallery, Lyon:
- Permanent exhibition
- Art 3 F.
2021-2023 : Galerie Kristel Ann Art :
- Festival Une rencontre autour du piano Guadeloupe.
- Fort Fleur d'épée Guadeloupe.
- Temporary gallery Le Marais Paris.
- King Carlos Pavilion, Cascais Portugal.
2022: Guest of honor at Bourbonnais Arts Vichy (28 pieces).
Award: 2022 Vichy puy de Dôme town medal.
2021: Guest of honor at salon Terre et Flamme Chantepie 35.
2019: Exhibition for Memory Week, Bordeaux town hall.
2019 February: Carrefour des arts exhibition, Puy de Dôme.
2018 : Germany: Neumarkt bank.
2018 August: Exhibition at Salon international Puy-en-Velay 43.
Award: 2nd prize in the sculpture category.
2018 October: Exhibition Salon Terre et Flamme Chantepie 35 (39 pieces).
Award: 1st prize from the public.
2018 May: Semaine de la mémoire, exhibition for the Montpellier May 10
Montpellier collective at the Maison des relations internationales.
2017 April: Carrefour des arts Chamalières 63 exhibition.
Award: 1st prize for sculpture with "Yannaké'éna".
2016: Carrefour des arts Chamalières Puy de Dôme exhibition.
Award: unanimous 1st prize for sculpture with "Les 3 frères".
FORMATION
1995 Training courses with sculptor Gigi Guadagnucci Massa Carrara Italy
1995 Volvic Puy de Dôme school of stone-cutting and architecture
1994-1995 Sculpture apprenticeship with Jean Chauchard, Rome lodge
pupil of Paul Belmondo
1993-1994 Faculty of art history
1992 Fine Arts Baccalaureate
Self-taught in sculpture since age 8
