Agnès Nivot was born in Paris, where she lives, works and teaches. A ceramist sculptor, she trained in Ireland before perfecting her skills in New York, Mexico and Burkina Faso. She is a well-known artist who has been invited to show her work at prestigious exhibitions in cities around the world, including Beijing, Shanghai, Beirut, Mino (Japan).

She draws inspiration from the symbolic shapes of the ancient civilizations of the different continents, the memory of which she strives to render. Her work, which is sober and uncluttered, as reflected in her Anneaux, plays upon the diversity of surfaces: rugged or polished, slipped or weathered, glazed or waxed. She works both in clay, with its subtly vibrating dark hues of gray and brown on matte surfaces and, more recently, in silken white porcelain refined with a touch of gold. Her work is evocative and complete.