Adele Renault

Adele Renault is a visual artist and muralist, known for her hyper- and photo-realistic paintings from smaller works on canvas and large-scale public pieces. She was born in Liège, Belgium. Renault's work is a combination of traditional and contemporary techniques.

Career Renault was born in 1988, and raised in the Belgian Ardennes. Her father is Jean-Christophe Renault, a composer and pianist, and her mother is Véronique Gillet, a composer and guitarist. Her sister is the singer and pianist Mathilde Renault.

Renault has lived and studied in different countries. She studied visual arts from classical oil painting to modern spray can graffiti, while experimenting with new media and graphic design. Renault graduated in 2010 from the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.

Many of her paintings have plant and animal imagery. When speaking on her Plantasia series, she emphasised her connection to plants, and how her mum taught her how to grow her own food. When painting murals of birds and bird feathers in her series Gutter Paradise, she stated that the feathers had "become [her] own language". 2022 - Vroom and Varossieau, interview ‘Adele Renault interview' 2022 - The Chrystel Ship, article ‘Adele Renault’ 2022 - Galaxy of Art, article and interview video ‘Artist of the moment… Adele Renault' 2022 - Le Vif, interview (in French) ‘Portrait Adele Renault sa plus grosse claque son plus gros risque son mantra' 2021 - As Adverture, article (in Dutch) ‘De graffitiartieste die schoonheid vindt waar een ander vergeet te kijken’ 2021 - Street Art News, article ‘Plantasia’ 2021 - New Bright on Streetart, article and interview video ‘Adele Renault’ 2021 - Brooklyn Street Art, interview ‘Adele Renault grows a new garden: “Call it Plantasia”’ 2021 - Monochronicle, article ‘’Adele Renault’ 2021 - Stadt Gent, article (in Dutch) 'Adele Renault’ 2020 - London Mural Festival, article ‘Adele Renault' 2020 - Mu in the City, article (in French) ‘Adele Renault debate sa fresque dans le cadre d’art public Liege’ 2019 - The American Pigeon Museum, article ‘Adele Renault’ 2019 - Collater, article ‘Adele Renault, hyper-realistic street art in Delhi’ 2018 - Brooklyn Street Art, article ‘Martha Cooper and Adele Renault: Pigeon fancier in Moscow’ 2017 - Sircle Collection, article by Claudia Fuggetti ‘Sir Albert's New Mural by Adele Renault’ 2017 - Urban Nation, article ‘Adele’ 2016 - Hotbook, article (in Spanish) ‘Adele Renault’ 2016 - Art is just a Four Letter Word - Gallery, article (in German) ‘Adele Renault - Les Hommes Integres’ 2016 - Straatmuseum, article (in Dutch) ‘Gutter Paradise’ 2015 - Widewalls, article by Miljard Ficpatrik: ‘Adele Renault on Her Artistic Journey and Passion for Pigeons’ 2015 - This is Colossal, article by Christopher Jobson ‘Hatched from a Discarded Egg on a Chicago Windowsill, ‘Camp’ the Pigeon Becomes a Muse for Adele Renault’s Giant Oil Paintings’ 2014 - Dutch Culture USA, 'Adele Renault’s solo at White Walls in SF'