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Laurence Jenkell

The sculptor behind the Wrapping Bonbon, signed JENK, in bronze, marble, plexiglass and Murano glass.

Laurence Jenkell in white, sitting on the floor among large glossy candy sculptures in pink, red, orange, clear and multicoloured wrappers
Discipline
Sculptor
Based in
Cannes
Born
1965, Bourges

Born in Bourges in 1965, Laurence Jenkell has spent more than two decades sculpting the Wrapping Bonbon, a wrapped candy in bronze, aluminum, marble, polyester, wood, plexiglass and Murano glass. Her Candy Nations series of flag-wrapped candies, first shown at the 2011 G20 Summit in Cannes, lined Broadway in New York in 2018. She lives and works in Cannes and is a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.

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