4ur3lia

4ur3lia Aurélia is a designer

Erasmus encourages us to cross borders, meet people and experience life somewhere else; but what happens when somewhere ...
02/09/2026

Erasmus encourages us to cross borders, meet people and experience life somewhere else; but what happens when somewhere else becomes home?

I came to Denmark for six months and stayed for thirteen years.
What started as a student exchange became love, work, family, identity and an entire adult life built in a country that wasn’t mine.
And over the years, I’ve realised that being welcomed somewhere and truly feeling that you belong there are two very different things.

This isn’t only a Danish question, but one I think many people living abroad across Europe will recognise.

We celebrate mobility, cultural exchange and international relationships, yet belonging can become much more complicated once foreigners decide to put down roots.

I don’t think there is a simple answer, and my own relationship with Denmark contains both gratitude and frustration.
But thirteen years here have completely changed the way I think about home.

So I’m curious about your experience: if you live abroad, do you feel that the country you live in truly sees you as part of it?

And what, after all these years, makes a place feel like home to you?

If you connected with my book Belonging, I want to introduce you to another part of my work: my visual art, which has be...
01/09/2026

If you connected with my book Belonging, I want to introduce you to another part of my work: my visual art, which has been exploring many of the same questions for years.

In my search for belonging, I started drawing Black characters in vivid colors to reclaim my Black identity.

For a long time, being mixed made me feel as if I existed somewhere in between. As if understanding who I was meant choosing one side or the other. Making art helped me realize that I didn’t have to divide myself to belong. I could hold my entire heritage at once.

I identify as a Black woman, while also understanding Blackness as a spectrum of identities, histories, skin tones, and experiences. The deep Black skin I use in my work isn’t meant to represent one specific skin tone. For me, it has become a visual language: a way of connecting the figures I draw to a shared African heritage.

That is where these three characters come from: The Radiant One, The Rebel Poet, and The Dreamer.

I wanted to portray them almost as heroes. Proud, vibrant, unapologetically present.

The colors are part of that language too. I grew up in the 90s, surrounded by the boldness of pop culture, cartoons, television, video games, and clothes. At the same time, African wax prints gave me another connection to color, pattern, and heritage. Screen printing brings those influences together beautifully: layer upon layer of saturated ink makes the colors almost jump from the paper.

Sometimes I think about what it would have meant to have images like these on the walls when I was a child.

To see African heritage represented not as something I needed to reduce or distance myself from to belong, but as something beautiful, expansive, and worthy of pride.

Maybe that is part of why I make them now.

These three limited-edition screen prints were made by hand in Lille, individually numbered and signed.

Available via the link in my bio.

Experience the vibrant texture of a screen print firsthand! Unlike digital images, these prints showcase rich layers, su...
01/09/2026

Experience the vibrant texture of a screen print firsthand!

Unlike digital images, these prints showcase rich layers, subtle color variations, and a tactile quality that truly come alive in person.

Each of these three unique pieces was meticulously hand screen printed in Lille as a limited edition, then personally numbered and signed; making them truly one-of-a-kind. Crafted slowly and beautifully, they’re designed to be cherished objects that can accompany you for years to come.

These exclusive limited-edition screen prints are now available through the link in my bio!

I’M SENDING 100 LETTERS TO STRANGERS.I started my own Snail Mail Art Club because I wanted to create a different way to ...
31/08/2026

I’M SENDING 100 LETTERS TO STRANGERS.

I started my own Snail Mail Art Club because I wanted to create a different way to experience and collect art, away from screens and more about belonging and living between cultures.

Every month, members of my Art Mail Club receive an envelope directly from my studio, no matter where they are in the world.

Inside each monthly art mail: a signed A5 art print, a personal double-sided letter about belonging, creativity, and living between cultures, plus a surprise pack of illustrated stickers.

It’s a monthly art subscription, but I see it as something more personal: a reason to pause, read, look at art, and keep something physical instead of just swiping to the next image.

It’s also an affordable way to start collecting original artist prints and support an independent artist directly.

Join my Snail Mail Art Club through the link in my bio.

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I spend so much time sharing my art online, but I wanted to create something that could exist beyond the screen.So I sta...
30/08/2026

I spend so much time sharing my art online, but I wanted to create something that could exist beyond the screen.

So I started a Snail Mail Club 💌

Every month, I send an envelope filled with a signed art print, a personal letter about belonging, creativity and living between cultures, plus a little pack of illustrated stickers.

I love the idea that my work can arrive at your home, that you can sit with it, read it, collect it, frame it or simply keep it somewhere special. It feels slower, more personal and more intimate than sharing something through a screen.

And because I believe collecting art shouldn’t only be for people with big budgets, I wanted the Mail Club to be an accessible way to own and support independent art.

💌 The next envelope could be yours.
Join my Mail Club through the link in my bio.

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28/08/2026

Friday mood is here!
Big, bold b***y bouncing to the beat 🍑😘🎶.

I crafted this animation frame by frame, drawing in Illustrator and adding special effects in After Effects.

What’s YOUR Friday vibe?

Illustrating Do the Work felt different from any other book project I had worked on.Long before I was asked to illustrat...
27/08/2026

Illustrating Do the Work felt different from any other book project I had worked on.

Long before I was asked to illustrate it, I had read Roxane Gay’s books and watched her MasterClass. Her writing had already had an impact on me. She has this ability to put words to experiences, social realities and uncomfortable situations that many of us have lived through but never quite knew how to articulate.

So when I had the opportunity to illustrate Do the Work, written by Roxane Gay and Megan Pillow, it felt incredibly special.

For this book, I worked entirely in black and white, translating powerful, direct and sometimes uncomfortable words into images. It pushed me to think differently about my own visual language and about how illustration can support a message without softening it.

I had already illustrated This Book Is Anti-Racist, but this project speaks to an adult audience in a different way: more direct, more uncompromising, and very much needed today.

Books can give us the language to understand experiences beyond our own. I’m grateful that my illustrations could become part of this one.

Do the Work is available now. 📖

And to publishers and art directors: I’m available for book illustration, editorial projects and commissions where images can bring another dimension to important stories.

I grew up in France learning French history, yet so many of these names were completely unfamiliar to me.Jean-Baptiste B...
26/08/2026

I grew up in France learning French history, yet so many of these names were completely unfamiliar to me.

Jean-Baptiste Belley, Solitude, Toussaint Louverture, Eugénie Éboué-Tell, Marlène Canguio… I discovered many of their stories much later, when I was asked to illustrate VISIBLES!, a book bringing together 40 Black figures connected to French history.

Illustrating this book became much more than drawing portraits. I was learning at the same time.

And what stayed with me is that these stories aren’t separate from French history. They are French history. They tell us something about slavery, resistance, politics, art, sport, the Caribbean, Africa, France; and about who gets remembered and who disappears from the stories we grow up with.

I illustrated all 40 figures in the book, and I hope the images make people curious enough to discover the lives behind them.

VISIBLES! by Binkady-Emmanuel Hié and Léo Kloeckner, illustrated by me, is available in French. If this carousel made you discover even one name, there are 34 more waiting inside the book.

You can find VISIBLES! through the link in my bio. 📚

My advice to aspiring artists is to stop focusing on your next collaboration and instead consider what kind of artist yo...
25/08/2026

My advice to aspiring artists is to stop focusing on your next collaboration and instead consider what kind of artist you want to become.

Concentrate on honing your vision, skills, and body of work instead of hunting for the right contacts.

People often overlook that your work needs to appeal to others; viewers should see what you do and think, 'I want this artist’s vision on my project.'

It’s more impactful when the right people approach you because they already understand your style rather than when you have to persuade them to hire you.

Show what you love creating, how you create it, and what makes your perspective unique, and do this consistently.

Many of my biggest opportunities came from this approach; I didn’t know exactly who was watching, but I made sure that when they saw my work, they knew what I could contribute.

Remember, your portfolio isn’t just a showcase of your past work; it's a guide for what projects you should be hired for next.

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