Gaspard Fleury-Dugy
Textile creator
Saint-Denis, France
Digital knitting
- Gaspard creates tantalising standalone sculptures through knitting
- His work is a fusion between craftsmanship and technology
- He is inspired by colours found in insects and botanicals
Gaspard Fleury-Dugy found his creative freedom in textile, where expressive forms, bold colours and a material shaped through code have forged his practice. Trained at the École Duperré in Paris, followed by a master's degree in textile design from Sweden, since 2024 he has been developing a singular practice at the intersection of object design, technological craft and material research. Gaspard's primary tool is an industrial Stoll knitting machine connected to a computer, with which he generates material volume directly from thread. The transformation from yarn to object happens in two stages: the knitting first, then a linking process that closes the piece to form a vessel or figure.
INTERVIEW
I watched my grandmothers knit, and my mother sewed. To me knitting is about the idea of tinkering, of working a surface, of getting your hands into it. What drives me today is research through sampling: one sample leads to ten others.
I draw my designs using a virtual reality headset. Then I slice the form into layers to code it into the machine, pixel by pixel, one stitch at a time. It takes hours of work. The craftsman's labour is displaced, not erased. To finish, I press the piece with an iron to give it density.
I am inspired by architects who specialised in curves, like Niemeyer, Calatrava, and this is blended with a biomorphic approach on tropical orchids and butterfly wings. When zooming in on an insect, the colours are extraordinary. I am also deeply drawn to the technical notation of textiles and the graphic language associated with this.
Thinking about knitted textile as a 3D volume, and thinking about colour are my two singularities. I am fascinated by the act of taking these skills outside of the realm of clothing, into furniture and object design. Textile can be a structure in its own right, not just a surface covering.
Gaspard Fleury-Dugy
Textile creator
Saint-Denis, France
ADDRESS
Address upon request, Saint-Denis, France
AVAILABILITY
By appointment only
LANGUAGES
French, English
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