Emilie Raud was born to a family of artists: her father, a sculptor, and her mother, a puppeteer, met at the school of fine arts. This dynamic background enabled her to be part of several artistic associations alongside her studies.After...
Read MoreEmilie Raud was born to a family of artists: her father, a sculptor, and her mother, a puppeteer, met at the school of fine arts. This dynamic background enabled her to be part of several artistic associations alongside her studies.
After studying at the Higher Art School of Lorient, she changed direction to work in the multimedia sector, more specifically ludopedagogy, for a few years. She then resumed studying and passed a master’s degree in video games and interactive media.
She then pursued a career of video game Art Director during which she took part in the emergence of video games for younger and female audiences.
Ten years later, she passed the French National Education’s competitive exams and became an applied arts teacher. She now teaches DNMADE students (higher education students who specialise in applied arts) drawing, photography and other techniques. As she focussed on handing down knowledge, she realised how necessary and vital it was for her to return to intensively practicing her art.
Since 2018 her artistic practice has been a daily commitment. In the meantime, Covid and the lockdown have changed our lives as well as her drawing habits. Online sketching sessions from living models have enabled her to travel across the world (London, New York, Berlin, Amsterdam, in Australia, Salvador…), any day at any time, to choose committed models and organisations, and to draw non-standard bodies. She favours working with activist, non-binary, queer, LGBTQIA+ models, and people who are keen to consider all kinds of bodies as valid.
Current work
Candle-lit portraits
They stage baroque lightings and contemporary bodies.
