No Rain, No Flowers: The iconic viral biro notes from Thomas Llu

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No Rain, No Flowers is a collection of irreverent, addictive, astute, and life-affirming notes from French artist, curator and gallery director, Thomas Lelu. In this diary of handwritten notes spanning twelve months, Lelu takes us from Monday through to Sunday, January to December, sharing his beloved inspiration, wisdom and humour.

At the core of Lelu's work is the message that art has the power to help humans through any kind of emotional challenge. Eternally popular on Instagram, his fans range from Snoop Dog to Kourtney Kardashian.

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Thomas Lelu is a contemporary artist, photographer and author of fiction. His visual work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums around the world and he has published 5 novels including Le Parisien (Flammarion) but also essays such as Le Manuel de la Photo Ratee (Leo Scheer) and After (Sternberg Press). He trained at Ensad (National School of Decorative Arts), he first worked as a graphic designer for many years before pursuing his career in the fashion press and advertising. In 2020 he opened a first gallery in Paris, La Cite, which he directs and since 2022 he has been curator of the Hotels Amour residences in Paris and Nice.

An artist with a nomadic practice, deliberately flirting with that of the amateur to better blur the lines and desecrate the status of the Contemporary Visual Artist, Thomas Lelu nevertheless adopts work protocols based on research, selection, extraction, the organization of images and words which constitute the material of his work, before diversion and transposition. This approach of quest, archiving and putting into perspective makes Thomas Lelu one of our archaeologists of the present time.