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2024 Central Saint Martins Graduate, UK
Upcoming show: PEPINIERE, Galerie de Buci in Paris; 11-19 April

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🖼️ A quiet morning after a night out in Paris. Filtered light through a ficus, the smell of coffee, a cat stretched out nearby and no desire to step outside. 
In Gavroche, Cléophée Donnais captures one of those suspended moments when time seems to slow down. Inspired by a morning spent at a friend’s apartment, the painting takes its name from his cat, whose laziness seemed to set the rhythm of the day. 
While the city carries on outside, the figures remain deliberately withdrawn from it, lingering over television programmes and the remnants of the night before. Paris, usually a source of movement and stimulation, becomes almost too intense to face. 
A portrait of intimacy and idleness, Gavroche reveals another side of Paris: not the city itself, but the desire, sometimes, to escape its pace.

Currently on display in Paris rêvé des artistes at PM GALLERY, on view until 5 September.

Cléophée Donnais, Gavroche, 2025
📍 PM GALLERY, 40 Rue de Seine, Paris 6th 
#CléophéeDonnais #ContemporaryArt #Painting #Paris #ParisExhibition taken in PM Gallery by @cleofait

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[SOLD AND FRAMED]
Thrilled to share this stunning lithograph has found its new home!
It’s incredibly moving to see this carefully made and framed piece hanging in @anelygrd ‘s living room. 🖤🥺 #framed #art #lithography taken in Paris, France by @cleofait

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Meet Cléophée Donnais @cleofait – a Paris-born artist (b. 2002) whose creative journey spans beyond borders. A graduate of the renowned Central Saint Martins in London, she now continues her practice back in Paris, where she navigates the delicate balance between intimacy and distance, color and material, abstraction and figuration.

In her latest series on jellyfish, featured in this exhibition «Pépinière», Cléophée explores these ethereal sea creatures through diverse media—lithographs, paintings, sculptures, and textiles. Their beauty and fluidity underwater contrast sharply with their transformation into ghostlike plastic bags once removed from the sea. This tension—between fascination and repulsion—is central to her work, pulling us into a world where opposites coexist in vibrant, poetic harmony.

•73 rue de Seine, 75006, Paris
until 19 April
#cleopheedonnais #galeriedebuci #pépinière taken in Paris, France by @cleofait

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What a beautiful evening at Galerie de Buci — thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening of «Pépinière», a heartfelt new chapter in our story of supporting emerging young voices in art.✨

We’re honored to share the work of Anna Kadet, Ivan Afonskiy, and Cléophée Donnais — three artists whose deeply personal journeys unfold through color, memory, and emotion.
From stories of everyday poetry and quiet strength, their works invite us into intimate, moving worlds.

The exhibition runs until April 19, 2025 — we would love to welcome you and share this special moment with you!

•73 Rue de Seine, 75006 Paris
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@ivan.afnsk.art
@kadet.art
@cleofait

photo : @olegnikishin

#GaleriedeBuci #Pépinière #AnnaKadet #IvanAfonskiy #CleopheeDonnais #ContemporaryArt #Vernissage #ParisArtScene taken in Paris, France by @cleofait

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✨Exciting news! A stunning selection of paintings by @ivan.afnsk.art, @kadet.art, and @cleofait has just arrived at our gallery for our new exhibition «Pépinière» , and we’re busy getting everything ready for the opening!

Join us for the vernissage this Thursday at 6 PM ( April 10)

Mark your calendar — you won’t want to miss it! ✨

• 73 rue de Seine, 75006 Paris

#Pepiniere #IvanAfonskiy #AnnaKadet #CleopheeDonnais #GaleriedeBuci #Vernissage #Backstage taken in Paris, France by @cleofait

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Since its creation in 1989, Galerie de Buci has always been a place for discovering new talent: the careers of over 20 artists have been launched with an exhibition at 73 rue de Seine. In 2025, this activity takes on a new dimension with the creation of the Galerie de Buci’s Pépinière. This meeting place for the discovery of new talent will be a constant annual feature of the Galerie’s programming.

The Pépinière’s first class is made up of three artists, Anna Kadet, Ivan Afonskiy, and Cléophée Donnais. All these artists have worked with the gallery: they have been driving forces behind the changes underway, having collaborated on the new artistic positioning around the dialogue between movements, media and styles.
Each of the three artists seeks to tell the story of their daily life: a colorful proximity for Cléophée, a documentation of his new life in France for Ivan, or a reflection on her fragility for Anna.

More about our exhibition on our website, link in bio ✨

Join us for a vernissage at 18:00 on 10 April at
73 rue de Seine, 75006 PARIS

The exhibition will run for
10 - 19 avril 2025 ✨
#Pepiniere #Vernissage #GaleriedeBuci taken in Paris, France by @cleofait

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🎀Ruffling🎀
Oil paint and pastels on canvas
1.27 x 1.07 m
June 2024 by @cleofait

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Finally posting photos of my performance at the National Gallery, 28/04/2023
Dancing next to Turner’s painting in wonderful costumes made in collaboration with @studiodooty and a jewellery piece designed by @jadeastwood_

#nationalgallery #danceperformance #performance #museum #fridaylate #costumedesigner #jewellerydesign #performanceart taken in The National Gallery, London by @cleofait

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Textile piece and close up
Diverse fabrics and embroidery
approx. 175 x 0.45 cm
2023
Narrating a journey through textile; soft and hard elements, intricate details and mess.
#exhibition #textileart #embroidery #groupshow #opening #londongallery by @cleofait

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Throwback February 2023, group exhibition show "Empetrement"
The theme aims to explore intersectionality, transmutation and paradoxisms through the manipulation of material, space and time.
Located at the OPENing space, an old bank in Moorgate; London.
#exhibition #opening #entanglement #collaborativeart #centralsaintmartins #londonshow #galleryopening taken in Angel Court by @cleofait

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Acrylics on paper. 2021 by @cleofait

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Domestic work and ubiquity
Acrylic on paper
2021 by @cleofait

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