Aliénor Bautru-Valois (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in Art History at the Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA), Grenoble Alpes University, France (since 2024), with a co-supervision at the University of Birmingham. She is researching the art of floral composition in early twentieth-century France and Britain (1890-1930). With a cross- disciplinary approach, combining cultural transfers, gender studies and plant studies, she examines the way in which flowers and modernity intertwined. Thus, she aims to replace flower painting within a visual and material culture which developed around the domestic practices of floriculture. Her research interests include the interrelationship of word and image, through her editorial coordination of the creative criticism journal Outsider.
In 2021, she interned at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and worked on the exhibition Allemagne / Années 1920 / Nouvelle Objectivité.
She is currently working as a part-time research assistant on an exhibition featuring fine arts and decorative arts which will take place in 2026 at La Piscine – Musée d’art et d’industrie.
