Profile

A craftsman, coppersmith, and designer for over twenty years, Wilfrid Jolly explores the expressive potential of metal through copperware, sculpture, and designer furniture. Trained in copper and brass techniques at the Olivier de Serres School of Applied Arts, he now teaches there, continuing the link between transmission and living practice.
Based in the Tarn region, he develops a unique body of work that blends traditional expertise with contemporary formal research. He regularly collaborates with designers, museums, and heritage institutions, while pursuing a sensitive and demanding personal approach. A laureate of the Rémy Cointreau Foundation, which supports exceptional artisans, he embodies a committed and poetic vision of metalworking.
His work is distinguished by a particular attention to gesture, the rhythm of hammering, and the "breathing" of the metal, seeking to reveal the inner life of the material. Wilfrid Jolly generously shares his techniques and philosophy of craftsmanship, where the intelligence of the hand meets the poetry of the material.
At Campus MaNa, he offers a lively and rigorous approach to coppersmithing, based on observation, experimentation, and attentiveness to the gesture.