Arnauld Le Calvé is a French sculptor working primarily with glass and ceramics. Born in Dreux in 1977, he developed an instinctive, material-driven practice shaped by both technical experimentation and a longstanding fascination with architecture, symbolism and ritual.

He trained in glassblowing in workshops across France before becoming an assistant at CIRVA, the International Centre for Research on Glass and Visual Arts in Marseille. In 2004, he created a series of blown-glass works inspired by Kashina figures and Native American ritual objects. Since establishing his own studio near Toulouse in 2011, his practice has evolved through a highly personal process combining thermoformed glass, chamotte stoneware, oxides, slips, pigments and metal. Clay is built by coil or slab, while molten glass is carefully integrated into the ceramic body through precise firing and temperature control.

Le Calvé’s work draws on a wide range of references, from the utopian architecture of Pascal Häusermann to Brazilian culture and the spiritual worlds of the Charrúa and ancient Dahomey. These influences feed into a distinctive sculptural vocabulary of organic, enveloping forms, often recalling imaginary shelters, totems or futuristic guardians.

Since 2020, totemic sculpture has become central to his practice. His works combine the rough, mineral presence of stoneware with the luminous fragility of blown glass. Granular surfaces evoke volcanic matter and ancient earth, while coloured glass elements—pierced, stretched or bubble-like—introduce light, transparency and movement.

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