Alban Lanore is born in Paris in 1966. He works and live in Touraine, away from the artistic world. He develops there, in total freedom, his art practice apart from art movements. Travels and encounters gave him the vocation of sculpture. He considers himself as an autodidact sculptor.
After conceiving sets for attraction parks, he created alongside his wife, Nanou Grimault († 2016) a vegetal decoration company that led them to travel around the world.
In 1998, a journey in Gabon changed their lives, both on an artistic and an ethical level. Amazed by the beauty and richness of the forests, Alban drew inspiration from another way of creation. After Gabon, it was the Amazon jungle, especially forest concessions, that he often prospected in order to collect only the falls.
Important encounters punctuated Alban Lanore's sculptor background. The first one was Jean-Jacques Popille, well-known among the art brut amateurs, that he met as a teenager. He then met Frans Krajcberg, an ardent defender of nature preservation alongside Pierre Restany, author of the "Manifeste du Naturalisme Intégral’’ manifesto, who encouraged him in his path. He eventually met Vincent Batbedat who brought him to a constructed art practice.