MANON SAUVAGE
ABOUT
A french artist and paper conservator, she graduated from the National Institute of Cultural Heritage in France, where she specialized in heritage preservation and paper conservation. Her journey has since taken her across continents — through Asia, Europe, North America, and the Caribbean — before bringing her to Switzerland, where she is now based.
She spent six transformative years in Puerto Rico. Immersed in its many rhythms, she reawakened her connection to nature’s cycles. There, creation became ritual: each sheet of paper, each botanical dye and pigment emerge from slowness and earth, guided by ancestral wisdom. Her work draws from the teachings of the natural world, celebrating each beauty, strength, and essential presence in our lives.
Memberships
NAHP - North American Hand Papermakers (2020-2022)
"Through its annual meetings, exhibitions, and publications, North American Hand Papermakers provides a forum for exchanging information, craft, history, science, and technology of papermaking and related crafts which captured the imagination of Dard Hunter (1883-1966). NAHP encourages the study of paper and papermaking, paper artistry, preservation of historical sites and artifacts, conservation, and scientific and technical research.
NAHP's activities are intended to serve as a conduit between artists, scientists, historians, and other practitioners and researchers in the discipline. Our meetings connect current and historical practice. Our exhibitions are intended to convey to the public the diverse and wide-ranging endeavors that comprises the field of hand papermaking. The collected artifacts, books, archives, and other materials, which were formerly called the Dard Hunter Paper Museum (now called the Dard Hunter Collection), form the core collection of the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum in Atlanta, Ga. Promoting interest in the collection as an important part of the world's cultural heritage is central to our purpose" (NAHP Mission from NAHP website)
IAPMA - International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (2022-2023)
The International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA) is the world leading organisation for paper artists. It was founded in 1986 in Düren, Germany, when paper as an art medium was far less well-known than it is today. While paper history and production are one facet of the Association's activities, the central focus is to promote paper and handmade paper as a contemporary artistic medium.
The Association's main objective is to facilitate an international exchange of artistic ideas and share information about hand papermaking and paper art. IAPMA aims to provide the opportunity for members to work together, collaborate on artistic projects and exhibitions, share solutions to technical problems, explore different paper-related cultural backgrounds, and encourage new approaches to paper arts. To this end, each year one Bulletin and six newsletters are produced: the newsletters provide information about exhibitions, publications, projects and techniques involving paper; the Bulletins are professionally produced magazines with handmade paper covers and sample papers which feature individual artists, papermakers and their ideas. All members are invited to share information with other members through the newsletters and Bulletins.