ABOUT
Enveloping sculptures,
Carefully crafted.
Nicole Lemieux is a contemporary sculptor based in Quebec City, whose works inhabit space like one inhabits a memory: with strength, gentleness and presence.
For over 30 years, she has sculpted spherical and ovoid forms, ribboned flights, hands, and capsules, which convey a poetic vision. The concepts are contemporary.
Their sensual forms do not seek to dominate, but to embrace space, to soften it, to reveal it. Each work acts like a breath in the rhythm of our living spaces.
An approach fueled by the material… and the meaning
Trained in visual arts and art history at Laval University, Nicole Lemieux initially explored all the techniques of shaping terracotta: throwing, modeling, slabs. This preferred material is now combined with various materials such as stainless steel, bronze, glass, wood, or acrylic.
But what distinguishes Nicole Lemieux is less the material than the method. She does not simply sculpt forms — she sculpts links: between the body and memory, between space and light, between the human and the earth.
An award-winning, respected artist, exhibited here and elsewhere
Nicole Lemieux has presented her work in over 60 group exhibitions and nine solo exhibitions. She has received major awards, highlighting both the quality of her work and the consistency of her research:
Gold medal, international exhibition in Bruges (Belgium, 2017)
Silver medal, exhibition in France (2017)
Finalist, Canadian National Ceramics Biennials (1990, 1994)
Official Selection, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (2000)
