Audrey Large is a French artist and designer based in Rotterdam whose practice navigates between object design and digital sculpture. She Graduated Cum Laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven (MA Social Design, 2017) and subsequently joined the residency program at the Jan van Eyck Academy (2019-2020).
Her work explores the potential of digital modeling and manufacturing tools to produce new formal languages specific to the virtual realm. Doing so, it profoundly challenges the authenticity of sight and our perception of materiality. Her process often begins with an intuitive gesture, sculpting directly in the digital space offered by a virtual reality set. This method allows her to infuse the machine’s space with a sense of sensitivity and human integrity: the models are not computer-generated, but rather shaped by each movement of her hand extruding a soft digital material at the tip of her controller.
Her work has been exhibited at the V&A, Saatchi Gallery, and Design Museum in London; the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein; the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva; the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam; and the Nxt Museum and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The Stedelijk Museum has also acquired one of her works for its permanent collection. In 2021, she received the Dutch Design Award in the Young Designer category, and in 2023 she was awarded the Dezeen Emerging Designer award. She has also designed international stamp sheets for PostNL and collaborated with Alessi.
Her work explores the potential of digital modeling and manufacturing tools to produce new formal languages specific to the virtual realm. Doing so, it profoundly challenges the authenticity of sight and our perception of materiality. Her process often begins with an intuitive gesture, sculpting directly in the digital space offered by a virtual reality set. This method allows her to infuse the machine’s space with a sense of sensitivity and human integrity: the models are not computer-generated, but rather shaped by each movement of her hand extruding a soft digital material at the tip of her controller.
Her work has been exhibited at the V&A, Saatchi Gallery, and Design Museum in London; the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein; the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva; the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam; and the Nxt Museum and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The Stedelijk Museum has also acquired one of her works for its permanent collection. In 2021, she received the Dutch Design Award in the Young Designer category, and in 2023 she was awarded the Dezeen Emerging Designer award. She has also designed international stamp sheets for PostNL and collaborated with Alessi.
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Artworks by Audrey Large
In museum collection:
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
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Born 11 June 1994, Bordeaux, France
Lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands
— EDUCATION
2015–2017
Design Academy Eindhoven, NL
MA Social Design, Cum Laude
2012–2015
École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Reims, FR
DNAP, Design Espace et Objets, Mention
— RESIDENCIES
2023
Palazzo Monti, Brescia, IT
2022
InResidence, Metamorphosis Signals, Torino, IT
2019
Chulin Dbz, Guangzhou, CN
2019–2020
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
— AWARDS
2024
Rising Talent Award, Maison&Objet, FR
2023
Dezeen Award, Emerging Designer of the Year, UK
2021
Dutch Design Award Winner, Young Designer, NL
2020
Young European Talent Award, Limburg, NL
2018
Emerging Talent Award, Salone del Mobile, Palazzo Clerici, Milan, IT
Permanent collections: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), OMM (TR), CNAP (FR)
— SOLO SHOWS
2024
FlowStones, Wonder Festival, Kortrijk, BE
2023
Celestial Proceedings, Nilufar Gallery, Milan, IT
2021
Some Vibrant Things, Nilufar Gallery, Milan, IT
2021
Scale To Infinity, Nilufar Gallery, online
— DUO SHOWS
2023
Design In Metamorphosis, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH
2022
Unidentified Fluid Other, Nxt Museum, Amsterdam, NL
— SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Design Miami Paris, Nilufar Gallery, Paris, FR
The Boundaries of Sight, Van Abbe Huis, Eindhoven, NL
Chemical Bounding, FABER, Timisoara, RO
De Cycloop, Museum Cobra, Amstelveen, NL
The Distorted Party, Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse, lille3000, Lille, FR
The Last Pot, Alessi, Milan, IT
Silver Lining, Nilufar Gallery, Milan, IT
Peeping Through, Asifose, Brussels, BE
Baanhof, Rotterdam Design Biennale, NL
UMC/AMC, Amsterdam, NL
Pâte à Sel Brussels, Stems Gallery, BE
3D Manuscript, Vedute Foundation, Rotterdam, NL
Unfair, Amsterdam, NL
BirdHouseProject, Object with Love, VitraHaus, DE
Dutch Design Awards, DDW, Eindhoven, NL
Designblok, Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, CZ
Creatures of Comfort, OMM, TR
Capsule Dreamscapes, Seoul, KR
Wild Summer, Brutus, Rotterdam, NL
BackBone, Carbon12 Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Fashion Moves, MAD Brussels, BE
Dutch More or Less, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
Boundaries of Ambiguity, MeetFactory, Prague, CZ
Runaways, Dopo, Milan, IT
Fair Enough, Atelier Triphasé, Brussels, BE
Objects of Desire, mudac, Lausanne, CH
Mexico City Art Week, Casa Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, Nilufar Gallery, MX
New Edge London, Converse, London Fashion Week, UK
Nomad St. Moritz, Nilufar Gallery, CH
Rising Talents, Maison&Objet, Paris, FR
Goûter le Monde, Musée du Vin de Champagne et d’Archéologie, FR
Conceptual Substance, Eternithaus, Berlin, DE
Objects of Desire, Design Museum, London, UK
AfterGlow, Design Miami, solo booth with Nilufar Gallery, US
Manscaping, The Hole Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Gelaagde Stad, AR public sculpture, Utrecht, NL
Designing Material Futures, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
HK Applied Art Center, Hong Kong, CN
Cendars Brussels, Galerie Zotto, Brussels, BE
The Invisible, Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius, LT
The Circle, Dutch Invertuals, MAKK, Cologne, DE
Bio-Tech, The Hole Gallery, New York, US
Design As Self-Portrait, Venice Design Biennale, Venice, IT
Gia Viewing Room, Poush Manifesto, Paris, FR
SuperHouse, New York, US
It’s Not You, Bad Doors Are Everywhere, DEAL, Brussels, BE
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR
Kleureyck x Le Tripostal, Lille, FR
Through the Gate, Darkly, Expoplu Experiment, Nijmegen, NL
Kleureyck x Design Museum Gent, BE
Open Studios, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
Objects of Desire, CaixaForum, Madrid, ES
Design Miami, Functional Art Gallery, Miami, US
Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design, Vitra Design Museum, DE
Korean Craft Biennale, Cheongju, KR
DemoFestival, Amsterdam, NL
We Couldn’t Find the Door, Morph Collective, FEY Festival, FR
From Dusk to Dawn, Morph Collective, K11, Guangzhou, CN
Design Miami, Nilufar Gallery, Basel, CH
FAR, Nilufar Gallery, Milan, IT
Dissolving Views, Morph Collective, Salone del Mobile, Milan, IT
Palace of Play, Morph Collective, Collectible Off, Brussels, BE
— TALKS & LECTURES
Architecture Curating Practice, Brussels, BE
BUMP Festival, Kortrijk, BE
Biennale de Venise, Uzbekistan Pavilion
Cranbrook Academy of Art
New Materials and Digital Crafts x Matter, DDW, Eindhoven, NL
VFX Tools, Fanfare Inc., Amsterdam, NL
— WORKSHOPS & TRAINING
MIARD, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL
Academy of Visual Arts Frankfurt, DE
Studio Digital Native, DAE, NL
Studio Technogeographies, NL
École des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, FR
NIKE, Portland, US
University of Mainz, DE
Karlsruhe, DE
Studio Technogeographies, NL
Chromatic Alphabets, InResidence, Prato, IT
Lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands
— EDUCATION
2015–2017
Design Academy Eindhoven, NL
MA Social Design, Cum Laude
2012–2015
École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Reims, FR
DNAP, Design Espace et Objets, Mention
— RESIDENCIES
2023
Palazzo Monti, Brescia, IT
2022
InResidence, Metamorphosis Signals, Torino, IT
2019
Chulin Dbz, Guangzhou, CN
2019–2020
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
— AWARDS
2024
Rising Talent Award, Maison&Objet, FR
2023
Dezeen Award, Emerging Designer of the Year, UK
2021
Dutch Design Award Winner, Young Designer, NL
2020
Young European Talent Award, Limburg, NL
2018
Emerging Talent Award, Salone del Mobile, Palazzo Clerici, Milan, IT
Permanent collections: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), OMM (TR), CNAP (FR)
— SOLO SHOWS
2024
FlowStones, Wonder Festival, Kortrijk, BE
2023
Celestial Proceedings, Nilufar Gallery, Milan, IT
2021
Some Vibrant Things, Nilufar Gallery, Milan, IT
2021
Scale To Infinity, Nilufar Gallery, online
— DUO SHOWS
2023
Design In Metamorphosis, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH
2022
Unidentified Fluid Other, Nxt Museum, Amsterdam, NL
— SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Design Miami Paris, Nilufar Gallery, Paris, FR
The Boundaries of Sight, Van Abbe Huis, Eindhoven, NL
Chemical Bounding, FABER, Timisoara, RO
De Cycloop, Museum Cobra, Amstelveen, NL
The Distorted Party, Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse, lille3000, Lille, FR
The Last Pot, Alessi, Milan, IT
Silver Lining, Nilufar Gallery, Milan, IT
Peeping Through, Asifose, Brussels, BE
Baanhof, Rotterdam Design Biennale, NL
UMC/AMC, Amsterdam, NL
Pâte à Sel Brussels, Stems Gallery, BE
3D Manuscript, Vedute Foundation, Rotterdam, NL
Unfair, Amsterdam, NL
BirdHouseProject, Object with Love, VitraHaus, DE
Dutch Design Awards, DDW, Eindhoven, NL
Designblok, Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, CZ
Creatures of Comfort, OMM, TR
Capsule Dreamscapes, Seoul, KR
Wild Summer, Brutus, Rotterdam, NL
BackBone, Carbon12 Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Fashion Moves, MAD Brussels, BE
Dutch More or Less, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
Boundaries of Ambiguity, MeetFactory, Prague, CZ
Runaways, Dopo, Milan, IT
Fair Enough, Atelier Triphasé, Brussels, BE
Objects of Desire, mudac, Lausanne, CH
Mexico City Art Week, Casa Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, Nilufar Gallery, MX
New Edge London, Converse, London Fashion Week, UK
Nomad St. Moritz, Nilufar Gallery, CH
Rising Talents, Maison&Objet, Paris, FR
Goûter le Monde, Musée du Vin de Champagne et d’Archéologie, FR
Conceptual Substance, Eternithaus, Berlin, DE
Objects of Desire, Design Museum, London, UK
AfterGlow, Design Miami, solo booth with Nilufar Gallery, US
Manscaping, The Hole Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Gelaagde Stad, AR public sculpture, Utrecht, NL
Designing Material Futures, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
HK Applied Art Center, Hong Kong, CN
Cendars Brussels, Galerie Zotto, Brussels, BE
The Invisible, Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius, LT
The Circle, Dutch Invertuals, MAKK, Cologne, DE
Bio-Tech, The Hole Gallery, New York, US
Design As Self-Portrait, Venice Design Biennale, Venice, IT
Gia Viewing Room, Poush Manifesto, Paris, FR
SuperHouse, New York, US
It’s Not You, Bad Doors Are Everywhere, DEAL, Brussels, BE
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR
Kleureyck x Le Tripostal, Lille, FR
Through the Gate, Darkly, Expoplu Experiment, Nijmegen, NL
Kleureyck x Design Museum Gent, BE
Open Studios, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
Objects of Desire, CaixaForum, Madrid, ES
Design Miami, Functional Art Gallery, Miami, US
Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design, Vitra Design Museum, DE
Korean Craft Biennale, Cheongju, KR
DemoFestival, Amsterdam, NL
We Couldn’t Find the Door, Morph Collective, FEY Festival, FR
From Dusk to Dawn, Morph Collective, K11, Guangzhou, CN
Design Miami, Nilufar Gallery, Basel, CH
FAR, Nilufar Gallery, Milan, IT
Dissolving Views, Morph Collective, Salone del Mobile, Milan, IT
Palace of Play, Morph Collective, Collectible Off, Brussels, BE
— TALKS & LECTURES
Architecture Curating Practice, Brussels, BE
BUMP Festival, Kortrijk, BE
Biennale de Venise, Uzbekistan Pavilion
Cranbrook Academy of Art
New Materials and Digital Crafts x Matter, DDW, Eindhoven, NL
VFX Tools, Fanfare Inc., Amsterdam, NL
— WORKSHOPS & TRAINING
MIARD, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL
Academy of Visual Arts Frankfurt, DE
Studio Digital Native, DAE, NL
Studio Technogeographies, NL
École des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, FR
NIKE, Portland, US
University of Mainz, DE
Karlsruhe, DE
Studio Technogeographies, NL
Chromatic Alphabets, InResidence, Prato, IT
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