After graduating from the School of Decorative Arts in Paris, Marion de Raucourt began working as a designer for luxury brands. During those years, she developed a special interest in parades and costumes.
Based in Mallorca since 2019 and inspired by the Mediterranean tradition, Marion creates series of handcrafted objects. With clay, she found the way to directly translate a language where the object is detached from its use to mingle with the allegory.
After graduating from the School of Decorative Arts in Paris, I began working as a designer for luxury brands. During those years, I developed a special interest in parades and costumes.
Based in Mallorca since 2019 and inspired by the Mediterranean tradition, I created a series of handcrafted objects. With clay, I found the way to directly translate a language where the object is detached from its use to mingle with the allegory.
I love folk art, I’m always looking at instruments, tools, I love functional objects that have a strange function, like in a cabinet of curiosities. I’m also very inspired by the characters and traditions of carnival. For artists I would say Calder and his little circus, Polke, the ceramics of Gaugin, Leonora Carrington, Dagobert Peche…
I share my studio with my partner Thomas Perroteau, who is a painter. The place is an old, industrial tapestry workshop in the city of Palma. For me it’s like a playground, a laboratory where I can experiment.
It’s quite full, with final pieces, experiments I’ve kept, inspirational photos, books and strange objects.
The space can always change depending on what I’m doing there, I have quite a multidisciplinary body of work, I use fabric moulds, plaster, ceramics, wood for installations and this variety is reflected in the studio. It’s a happy mess.
I recently read The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, which deeply inspired me. It’s a surrealist novel about the devil’s arrival in Moscow, where he sows chaos and wonder. Its highly dreamlike episodes—especially the famous scene of the devil’s ball—sparked a series of works of my own.
As for film, I was captivated by Orfeu Negro by Marcel Camus. I love it for its poetic atmosphere, vibrant costumes, and entrancing rhythm. The dazzling carnival imagery also left a strong impression on me and continues to influence my artistic practice.
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