Today :
Stemming from the Myspace generation, Manon has used her pervert double Babyscotch to reveal the paradoxes of her work and her personality.
Indeed, like a superhero leading a double life, during the day she is an Applied Arts teacher in a school for blind and partially sighted young people. At night though, she resumes her drawing or knitting and comes up with what she best describes as her hero-tic pieces: creations which arouse a unique feeling of softness and sensuality mixed with a disturbing impression of force and harshness.
Background :
Manon discovers the art of knitting and her taste for wool while travelling in Iceland. In summer 2006, like Penelope weaving a shroud as her Ulysses is away on his odyssey, Manon makes up for her lover’s absence by starting to knit … wool willies. These cute penis substitutes which she stuffs with lavender start to breed and multiply on her recently created Myspace page, until they are spotted by André who offers to put them on sale at the Blackblock (Palais de Tokyo).
At the same time she goes on drawing and creates melancholy, sometimes mischievous and sexual little girls who lick, kiss and suck just about anything they find. It’s the beginning of a long series of drawings which will be transferred on T-shirts with Andrea Crews and later Tricolore.
Her drawings gradually evolve and the naughty little girls give way to more explicit nudes which sometimes seem like self-portraits. Yet an ambiguous collection of animals still creeps into those, reflecting the rage hidden behind innocence.
Her work is then published in several magazines such as Playboy, Nuke and Standard Magazine. The latter is the origin of the motorcycle helmet customization project: Standard gives Babyscotch’s vision carte blanche and she starts knitting helmets and hoods the softness of which sharply contrasts with the object itself. Jean Charles de Castelbajac discovers these last pieces and offers her to collaborate with him. Today she is working for the designer’s next fashion show.
Origins :
After growing up in the French Jura mountains, this “child of the North” migrates to Paris to study at the ENSAAM (Olivier de Serres) Applied Arts School and to start working in parallel for fashion magazines such as Vogue U.S., Numéro, and Jalouse.
Because she wants to share what she loves she decides to teach and in 2002 she passes the Capes – the French competitive examination for teaching.
But as her career as an applied arts teacher begins, she realizes she cannot live without both travelling and creating. England, Iceland, and New York are the three main poles of her inspiration. England for its green, fertile land and for rock music: from Paris to Brighton or London she does not miss a concert by her friends.
New York was the place where she assisted one of her first mentors, fashion photographer Albert Giordan, and where she met and went on tour with Fisherspooner.
Finally Iceland, which deeply reflects the artist’s universe: a land of rocky landscapes and immaculate snow under which a boiling heart is always about to explode.
Now :
Besides her work with JC/DC, Babyscotch is designing a real-size car wool body for the exhibition Radiomobile taking place during the FIAC. and she’s exhibiting her work at the WOK store, Milan.The new artwork for Asphalt Duchess and Lofty
Manon Beuchot lives and works in Lyon.
Babyscotch works and lives in Paris.
Bonjour Manon, Won't you please say hello when you are here again? Would love to catch up, and to hear about what you are doing now. Love and kisses for you.. Best wishes xoxoxo
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