Jean-jacques Marchal
Visual Artist (Lismore, NSW)

Jean-jacques, or Minou as his friends call him, was born in 1953 in France (Aix-en Provence) and spent 25 years in Paris before moving to Australia with his wife Janet, a ceramics artist. He settled in the Northern Rivers region of NSW (Lismore) and has been living and working there as an artist there for the past 10 years, working with his wife and running their ceramic business.

Jean-jacques became involved in art at a very early age. He is mosly self-taught, with some academic training in Paris, where he was involved in an artistic movement (JEUNE PEINTURE). He has also undergone comics technical training, and has conducted several solo exhibitions with modern abstraction painting.

Jean-jacques personal history goes back to the Seventies hippy movement in Europe, with a sejour in Christiania Copenhagen in the Eighties, then back to Paris living in many different artist communities and setting up his own state artist studio, always working a 'new way' with break throughs in abstraction painting. Since arriving in Australia, Jean-jacques has held solo and group exhibitions Sydney, Newcastle, and Byron Bay. His works are apparently opposites - black & white oil abstract expression paintings, the result of his most personal research, colour oil "abstract-signs" paintings, colour acrylic on paper "simplified geometric abstraction" (most recent) and figurative realistic large black & white drawings.

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