WILLIAM AMADIEU
SCULPTOR OF VIBRATING MATERIALS
France, 1971
My work is located at the border between Sculpture, Painting, Design and Sensory Art where matter becomes language and where form dialogues with light, sound and space.
Through my painting-sculptures, I associate wood, pigments, inks and acrylic with materials such as bronze, aluminum, silver, washi paper or mortar with very high performance. This research explores the balance between strength and delicacy, presence and lightness.
The textures, layers and interactions of light construct a singular plastic script, where matter becomes both structure and emotion.
In 2022, a new intuition came to me as an inner necessity. The desire to explore a new artistic language emerged, opening the way for a renewed plastic writing. My gestures were then expressed through paintings-sculptures: free and inhabited works, crossed by the breath of a poetic and sensory contemporary art.
After three years of creation was born the exhibition Le Souffle de Vie, a slow crossing between silence and vibration, between earthly memory and cosmic breath. It embodies the culmination of this research where matter, light and sensitivity meet in an immersive and contemplative experience.
This evolution is part of the continuity of a journey built around artisanal excellence and creation.
Designer, Master Cabinetmaker of Art and Artistic Director, I have long developed a work based on the subtle alliance between simplicity and sophistication.
"Sophistication, never imposed, is gradually revealed to the attentive gaze, with delicacy, through the richness of materials, colors, textures and shapes. Each creation is thought of as a unique work.”
I had the privilege of designing works for art collectors, internationally renowned musicians, prestigious Grands Crus wineries, as well as places steeped in history such as the Prieuré Saint-Cosme, Demeure de Ronsard.
My career has also been marked by major art exhibitions and events, notably at the Révélations exhibition and at Art Paris at the Grand Palais, as well as in New York.
So many experiences that have nourished and shaped the way I look at matter, space and emotion today.
Bio
Year 2026
-Créative Brilliance in Situ, in the forest of the Château de Valmer, France. June 18, 2026
William Amadieu Sculptor and Edward Perraud percussionist composer.
The painting, entitled Project 1 Fulgurance in nature, was built in total symbiosis with nature and the vibratory energy of percussion. Twenty minutes of a rare and intense connection, where painting, sculpture, music and environment became one.
-Artistic Residence at the Moulin du Château de Valmer.
Recording of the instrument work Haïku for Edward Perraud’s upcoming solo album. This battery sculpture Haiku, is a unique piece of exception made for the Liliane Bettencourt Prize 2014.
-Cosmogenesis, new ongoing project, research work on the subject within my artistic laboratory. I develop the new drawings and structure the future works: Paintings & Sculptures (Since January 2026).
Year 2025
- Exhibition The Breath of Life, in September, Romanesque church of Sallertaine, France, accompanied by a duo performance with the musician Edward Perraud, giving birth to the painting Island in Peace.
Year 2022 to 2025
- Realization of the 12 paintings constituting the project The Breath of Life
Year 2021
- Creation of the work Malle de Curiosité, for the Prieuré Saint-Cosme, residence of the Poet Pierre de Ronsard, Maisons des Illustres,UNESCO.
Thought as a travel trunk, this cabinet of curiosities allows visitors to discover through the five senses the history of the Priory and the characters who lived there
Smell the scent of the Loire that has shaped this place, discover the aesthetics of the Renaissance, touch precious materials... Like a sensory journey through time
- Primitive Snare, Macassar’s Ebony, Unique Piece. Album Out of Time Edward Perraud
Year 2020
- Workshop/Show-Room in Tours
- Interview The soul at your fingertips Maison Sensey Paris
Year 2019
- Revelations 2019 Grand Palais Paris.
- Drummer Magazine N°335
- Magazine Ms.Presse DECO N°12
- Title Master Cabinetmaker of Art
Year 2018
-Creation of the work Archet The early arc. Album Spaces Edward Perraud
Year 2017
- Showroom MATIERES A CONVICTION Paris, Agent
- EMPREINTES Paris
- Art Paris Art Fair Grand Palais Paris
- ICFF Emerging Designers New-York, Divine Fullness Armchair
- Exhibition at the Maison des Métiers d'Art Pézenas-France
Year 2016
- Salon Maison & Objet Paris
Year 2015
- Institutional Booklet No. 1 of INMA (National Institute of Arts and Crafts)
- Recording with the work Drum Jazz Haïku, at Petit Faucheux, American Jazz drummer Jeff Ballard (Brad Meldau, Ray Charles ...)
Year 2014
- Liliane Bettencourt 2014 competition on the theme «L'intelligence de la Main», Talents d'Exception, work presented Drum Jazz Haïku
- Recording with the work Drum Jazz Tiwabi, album «Giu' La Testa» Sylvain Luc and Stefano Di Battista, at Studio Ferber Paris
Year 2013
- Member of the jury Prix Touraine Métiers d'Art
- Drummer Magazine N° 268 and 273
- Recording with the creation Jazz Drum Tiwabi, album Jazz 2013 «Cocanha» Lionel Suarez
Year 2012
- Drummer Magazine N° 257
Year 2011
-Recording with the work Drum Jazz Côté Rivière
Presentation Album Solistick, drummer Franck Agulhon
- Fémina Magazine N°488
- TV for FR3 Aquitaine
Year 2010
- AD Magazine No. 93
- Drummer Magazine N° 237
Year 2009
- Workshop in the Périgord, France
- Art Craft N°244