A very Camp tale!

If you're looking for someone who knows how to live life

to the full then you need look no further than Adele Renault.

She was born into a musical family on a farm in the Belgian

Ardennes in 1988 and by the time she had reached the ripe old

age of fourteen she had already begun to travel abroad alone,

first to Venezeula on an exchange visit and then to

Brighton on the South Coast of England for two years.

Adele graduated in 2010 from the Academie Royal des Beaux

Arts in Brussels with a degree in Graphic Design having studied

everything from classical oil painting to spray can graffiti and

everything else in between.

Is this a posh pigeon loft?

In 2009 she began working with Neils Shoe Meulman and together

they travel the world collaborating on large scale murals.

Neils provides the iconic word images and she paints in the

livestock.  When not on the move they can be found at The Unruly

Gallery in Amsterdam.

Instagram

Meanwhile in 2013 far away across the Pond in Wisconsin, Chicago

artist George Keaton and photographer Marian Naella discovered

a tiny white egg in their kitchen left behind by workmen replacing

old windows in their apartment.  By some miracle the egg hatched

and a tiny pigeonlet now know worldwide as Camp emerged.

Egg-stra-ordinary

The couple hand reared the chick and when it was time for his

release into the wild it soon became apparent that Camp had other

ideas - he was family and he wasn't going anywhere.  You can

follow his adventures every day on Instagram.

A Camp teenager

It was through these posts that Adele got to hear about Camp and

quickly decided to make him her new muse producing a series of

giant canvases depicting the stages of his life from egg to adult.

Up close and personal.

If you're anywhere near Chicago go and see the exhibition for

yourself.  If not, just feast your eyes here, fluff out your feathers

and say COO!