Hubert Duprat

Place: Périgueux

Born: 1957

Biography:

Hubert Duprat is a French artist born in 1957 in Périgueux, France. He is known for his unusual work, an artistic intersection between caddisfly larvae and gold, opal, turquoise and other precious stones. Duprat collects the larvae from their natural environments and puts them in tanks filled with his own materials, from which they begin to build their new protective sheaths. He has been working with caddisfly larvae since the early 1980s. Duprat lives and works in the south of France.