Born in 1956 in Blida, ALGERIA

Lives and works in Nice, FRANCE

At the age of 18, she left France and spent time in Laos and Morocco, before discovering her vocation for the performing arts at the turn of the 1980s. She became ‘Lisa Dhora’, a transformist performer, and continued to travel extensively.

This first chapter of her life, which began in Europe with tours of discotheques, cabarets, theatres, casinos and music halls, continued across the Atlantic, where she was invited to perform at festivals in Colombia, Australia and Venezuela, and on cruise ships from 1989 onwards. It was during her many stopovers in the Caribbean and South America that she began to ‘pick up wonder-stories’ on the beaches, the debris of magnificent pasts carried by the waves.

Her passion for the mineral world began in Brazil, where she discovered its richness and splendour and began buying and collecting magnificent semi-precious stones.

But these ‘piles of wonder’ remained dormant, and only took shape after an inner germination, thanks to a radical change of life in 2000.

So began the second chapter: leaving behind her travels, incessant movement and the stage, to experience the excitement of the ‘blank page’ and the work to be born, a new adventure and a new laboratory for experimentation for this passionate self-taught artist!

In 2000, she opened her jewellery boutique/gallery/workshop ‘Chez Clo’ in Milan, a place of creation, exchange and sociability in a young and dynamic neighbourhood. Over the years, the mediums, materials, fastenings, colours and designs of these contemporary jewels - all unique pieces - have evolved: little by little, they have begun to be based on a logic of ‘overcycling’, and to form a bridge between ‘pure’ jewellery and the first sculptures. These twelve enriching, creative, formative and slightly crazy years in Milan ‘Chez Clo’ also gave rise to some stimulating exhibitions and collaborations with the fashion world.

But in 2013, the desire to return to the sea and rewrite a new chapter led her to leave Milan for Nice, where she has lived and worked ever since.

Claudine Dupeyron's sculptures and jewellery-sculptures speak of time and resilience.

Resilience, and in an alchemical, shamanic way, they let a wind of almost anarchic freedom blow through them, bringing together a variety of materials, all aged and ‘wrinkled’, and some softened by the sea.

These improbable hybrid forms, sometimes primitive and archaic in appearance, are a way of recomposing time, even if it is Nature that has accomplished the most complex course of mutations.

For Claudine Dupeyron, it's a question of serving as a link, and of being the hand that, with humility, restores a soul to things by respecting their essence, and magnifying their beauty, already there, but sometimes obscured by the friction and wear of life.