Marion Delarue graduated from the Contemporary Jewellery Department of the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts, and has studied for multiple international diplomas. She followed her studies in France with an apprenticeship in glass and ceramics, then studied the art of Ottchil – traditional Korean lacquer – at Pai-Chai University in South Korea before finishing her training at the Estonian Academy of Arts, in Tallinn. 

Nourished by the different techniques she learnt during her travels, Marion Delarue exposed in art galleries in Vienna South Korea, before presenting her large necklaces entitled Cracheh at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2013, objets d’art inspired by the traditional Korean headdress – a huge black chignon with a gold pin through it – which she transformed into a torque necklace. 

As she doesn't work with stones or metals but questions the relationship between ornament and the body, Marion Delarue does not consider herself to be a “jewellery maker” but “an object artist”. Passionate about traditional expertise, she selects the materials she works in line with each project: Korean lacquer (Sangtu, 2018-2019), feathers (Parrot Devotees, 2016-2019), mother of pearl or porcelain (Agate Jewels, 2012-2013). Pieces that “rock her certitudes” and that use highly precise techniques and deep know-how mixing tradition and contemporaneity.

Marion Delarue has fifteen or so awards to her name: the Emerge Prize in 2014, the Prix pour l’Intelligence de la Main (Prize for the intelligence of the hand) in 2016 or the first European Triennial Prize for Contemporary Jewellery, in 2018. Exhibiting around the globe, she was one of the designers present at the A Bit of Clay on the Skin event at the Gardiner Museum of Toronto or in Washington at the Bellevue Arts Museum for the Emerge/Evolve exhibition in 2014. In parallel, the artist has taken part in residencies in China, Taiwan and South Korea, before going to the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto in Japan, for a six-month residency devoted to Japanese hair ornaments and crafts. Marion Delarue then took part in the ¡ Viva Villa ! festival in 2019 at the Lambert Collection in Avignon.