Born in Valence, France (1957) Véronique went to the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris and obtained her diploma in 1981. Moreover, she achieved a DEA (MA) in Modern Indian Studies on Hindi films. She has been part of diverse groups of artist self-organisations like ART MOBIL with its journal, No-made, both in the region of Nice and the Museo Teo in Turin. Furthermore, she is member of the Association Internationale des Arts Plastiques (AIAP)-Unesco, based in Monaco. During her long career, she organised exhibitions, installations, videos, and performances throughout the world. Often, she focusses on the concept of “Mediterraneanness”, in which colour, musicality, humanity and playfulness play an important role.
Besides painting, the artist forms reliefs and sculptures from newspapers and posters, combined with glue, fiberglass and resin. With a glance to art history, legend and fairy tales, Véronique interprets her sources astute and humorous. Favourite inspirations she takes from classical paintings for example by Botticelli or Velasquez. Her sculpture “Botticelli’s Spring” is our Artwork of the Month / May 2015.
During her long artistic practice, she created several Madonnas in her different techniques. There are archaic ones like a Madonna of Snow, a monumental outdoor sculpture. Others are more classical works like the Madonna with Child, our Artwork of the Month / December 2017. In addition, these Madonnas might have contemporary references. Often the Madonnas are inspired by paintings inter alia by Giovanni Bellini.
A personal exhibition on fairy tales in January 2015 in Valence included an installation of a newspaper forest. Another one in March and April 2015 at the Montpellier University showed many artworks inspired by Occitan literature (Troubadours, Mistral and actual poets). In 2017, Véronique participated in a group exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris, where she proposed a visual dialogue between Paris and Milan, with Neapolitan interferences as installation of citations coming from paintings of the three towns.
In September 2020, Véronique participated in a group exhibition about the history of engravings in the Media Library Albert Camus in Antibes. Hence, the inspiration to engage more intensively with graphic prints. Besides many other works, she made a series of prints, in particular collagraphies. One of these works, “Satyr” is our Artwork of the Month / March 2021.
Since 2004 Véronique creates dwarves made of papier-mâché. They were presented on several occasions and in various constellations, for example in 2006 in “the Room” in Turin, Italy under the title “Bianca Neve e i 47 Nani” (Snow White and the 47 Dwarves) and in 2010 as “Train de Nains” at the Museo Teo in Milan. Meanwhile, an entire population of dwarves has emerged. Our Artwork of the Month / December 2025 is dedicated to them.
Even though her sculptures are precious pearls by themselves, she sometimes brings them to life, in placing them into images for visual poetry stories, published as books in France, Italy and Belgium. Her latest publication was released in 2023 at Ichnos Editions: “Contribution à une réhabilitation du travail ménager et en particulier de la place de l’homme dans la maison” (Contribution to the rehabilitation of domestic work and, in particular, the role of men in the home), where she collaged well known historic artworks into household environments. Moreover, she contributed articles and illustrations to various journals of visual poetry.
Several Galleries in France, Italy, Monaco and the United States represent Veronique’s works. In the same countries, she had numerous personal and group exhibitions, but as well in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Hong Kong. Currently she contributes to the group show “Exposition Histoire d’un lieu: les 20 ans du Transartcafé” (Exhibition History of a place: 20 years of Transartcafé), inaugurated on November 28th, 2025, in Antibes.
Véronique lives and works in Antibes, France.
https://www.instagram.com/veroniquechampollion/
https://www.facebook.com/veronique.champollion/