Born in 1967 in Rouen, Stéphane Peltier lives and works in Toulouse and in the Gers (south-west of France). He graduated from the Art School of Aix en Pce University and undertook a PHD on the beginnings of Art Criticism.

He trained during the period of the “return to painting”at the end of the 1980s and remained faithful to that medium. He had been marked since his beginnings by American abstract expressionism and in the years 2000 he came back to fragmented figuration with works inhabited by acephalic or phantomatic / ghostly bodies, animals and references to Antiquity. Then he stopped painting. He left metropolitan France to travel.


When he went back to painting the ghosts / phantoms had disappeared.

His interests are very diverse and range from Italian Mannerism to Oscar Wilde’s writings and portolan charts. His work nowadays takes a number of forms that can hardly be traced back to a common identity. Still, the common denominator is his conception of painting: convinced as he is that art is totally separate from life, he considers art as pure artifice. To him, a painting is an enclosed world in which outlook, meaning and sensation are carefully built.

He is distrustful of the widespread use of photography in painting and only rarely resorts to it because it conceals the real as well as the painting underneath the surface of an image. Conversely, his work feeds on memory, observation, drawing and the remains of sensations which underlie his relationship to the world.

Formation

Études d'arts plastiques (Licence, Maîtrise, DEA) - Université d'Aix-en-Provence

Thèse de doctorat soutenu en 1999 à l'université de Provence (mention THF)

Parcours artistique

Expositions récentes et à venir

Château de Lavardens - Juillet-août 2018

Artistes à suivre (Aude) - Mai 2018

Galerie L'âne bleu - hors les murs - Galerie Maumu (32) - Avril-mai 2018

Samatan - Avril 2017

Le PARI - Tarbes - Janvier-février 2017

Le Continental - Condom - Janvier 2017

Galerie J. V. Invite - Noilhan - Décembre 2016-janvier 2017

Château de Lavardens - Juin 2016

Le sens de ma démarche artistique fait l'objet des notes d'atelier accessibles depuis le menu.

Film  - Écriture et réalisation

L'invention d'une île - Production Cinédoc Films

Ran mo tambour - Production Cinédoc Films

Conférences

Depuis 2009, cycle de conférences autour des œuvres du FRAC Midi-Pyrénées (Abattoirs - Toulouse)

Conférence à l'Abbaye de Flaran (32)