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Trained in art history at the École du Louvre, Héléna Guy Lhomme initially established herself through painting and ceramic sculpture, before discovering a material that many consider unconventional: wool. It was in Moscow, working alongside Slavic artists and artisans within the underground art scene, that she began working with it. Upon returning to France, she completed her studies at ENSAPC in Cergy with a DNSEP.

When the pandemic cut her off from the outside world, carded wool emerged as a cathartic outlet. A living, eco-friendly material, the product of human and animal labor, it becomes the tangible link that still connects her to the world. This fluid medium, evoking femininity and home, ultra-malleable and pictorial, which she transforms through tens of thousands of stitches, grants her renewed creative power.
In a daily life reduced to repetitive rituals, the theme of meals and food becomes central to her work, exploring our place within the living world and the power of cultural legacies.
In 2023, the Mobilier National invited her to participate in the second edition of the exhibition Les Aliénés, presented at the Château de Biron in the Dordogne. The DRAC Île-de-France supported her one-year corporate residency at Capgemini, and in 2024, the JAD collective selected her for a residency with BilbaoArte, the results of which will be presented in Venice in the fall of 2026. Her work is also exhibited at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the PAD with the Maison Parisienne gallery, and it is included in public and private collections.