Sonia Dubois

I’m a French + Polish visual artist. Merging linogravure with clay and paper to produce tactile, sculptural objects.


Born in 1992 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. My practice centres on reliefs and the search for drawing within matter. Working with paper, clay, and porcelain, I create objects that exist at the intersection of fine art and craft.

I create paper reliefs, ceramic murals, light-based objects, and hybrid forms that combine paper and ceramics. A key aspect of my practice is artisanal printmaking and matrix carving, where the printed impression becomes the starting point for relief-based illustration. This process often extends beyond the flat surface, bringing together printmaking and clay to create spatial, materially driven compositions. I am interested in the moment when drawing leaves the two-dimensional plane and becomes a three-dimensional structure—an object perceived through light, shadow, and touch. My practice is rooted in craftsmanship and material experimentation, exploring how illustration can be experienced beyond the visual image.

The starting point of my work is the memory of landscape and the experience of wildness, understood as a primal relationship with nature. Drawing on my Polish, French, and Mongolian heritage, I find inspiration in the rhythms of forests and meadows, organic forms, and local craft traditions. For me, nature is not an illustrative motif but a partner in dialogue and the source of a material language. I am also an animal rights activist. I live and work in Poznań, Poland.

EDUCATION

 

Art High School named after Brancusi, Stettin – Diploma in Artistic Craftsmanship, specializing in Woodcarving 2012–2018 – Master’s and Bachelor’s studies in Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Arts in Poznań

2016–2017 – Printmaking training – Relief Printing, University of Arts in Poznań

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Vogue Living Poland, AD Poland, GQ Poland, Elle Decoration Poland, AD Germany, Living Italia, AD Italia, Vogue Italia, Design Alive, Label Magazine, Vogue Beauty Poland, Elle Poland, Vogue Scandinavia 

 

CLIENTS

 

Craftica, Tylko, Nooma, Lukullus, Zofia Wyganowska Studio, Space&Matter, Civic Square, Oé, Tiptoe.fr, Noho Investments, Royal Institute of British Architects, Fundacja Geremka, The Embassy of the Netherlands in USA, GrowX, The Association of Polish Architects, MTP Poznan Expo, Brita, Galilu Neoperfumiarnie, Starak Family Foundation

contact me

hello@soniadubois.com

projects

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