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Madeleine Chevalier was born in Montreal and earned her BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (B.C.) in 1996. She has exhibited in various venues in Vancouver and Montreal. She has been influenced by such artists as Kiki Smith, Berlinde de Bruyckere and Magda Gluszek. These artists create sculptures that reveal the human body and human life in all its frailty. The recurrent subject matter depicts human vulnerability which has informed and inspired her clay sculptures.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die…for the harder I work the more I live” This is my mantra which encapsulates the intensely and sometimes uncomfortable feelings I explore when I’m creating in clay. When I am working on a new sculpture it feels as though it’s coming from places deep in my subconscious, the clay helping to shape and reshape my inner self. Frequently I feel that I have uncovered blocks of unwanted emotions after which I feel newly free and happy. Sometimes this exploration exposes shame, or pain, or anger, despair, death and always, intimacy.
I let my intuition guide me and I am often surprised at the result. I use pigments, colours and glazing - layering, removing, adding, subtracting - in order to nuance the rawness of each piece. This process melds, for me, my visions of identity, loss, anxiety, and loneliness. I want the experience of my work to be excruciatingly intimate, so that the viewer is “in” it with me. I believe, when we remove the glossy surfaces we display in our public lives, allowing ourselves to show our nakedness and vulnerability, only then do we try to live with courage and authenticity.
In my works you will experience with me, and beside me, a life and art in progress.Madeleine Chevalier was born in Montreal and earned her BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (B.C.) in 1996. She has exhibited in various venues in Vancouver and Montreal. She has been influenced by such artists as Kiki Smith, Berlinde de Bruyckere and Magda Gluszek. These artists create sculptures that reveal the human body and human life in all its frailty. The recurrent subject matter depicts human vulnerability which has informed and inspired her clay sculptures.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die…for the harder I work the more I live” This is my mantra which encapsulates the intensely and sometimes uncomfortable feelings I explore when I’m creating in clay. When I am working on a new sculpture it feels as though it’s coming from places deep in my subconscious, the clay helping to shape and reshape my inner self. Frequently I feel that I have uncovered blocks of unwanted emotions after which I feel newly free and happy. Sometimes this exploration exposes shame, or pain, or anger, despair, death and always, intimacy.
I let my intuition guide me and I am often surprised at the result. I use pigments, colours and glazing - layering, removing, adding, subtracting - in order to nuance the rawness of each piece. This process melds, for me, my visions of identity, loss, anxiety, and loneliness. I want the experience of my work to be excruciatingly intimate, so that the viewer is “in” it with me. I believe, when we remove the glossy surfaces we display in our public lives, allowing ourselves to show our nakedness and vulnerability, only then do we try to live with courage and authenticity.
In my works you will experience with me, and beside me, a life and art in progress.Madeleine Chevalier was born in Montreal and earned her BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (B.C.) in 1996. She has exhibited in various venues in Vancouver and Montreal. She has been influenced by such artists as Kiki Smith, Berlinde de Bruyckere and Magda Gluszek. These artists create sculptures that reveal the human body and human life in all its frailty. The recurrent subject matter depicts human vulnerability which has informed and inspired her clay sculptures.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die…for the harder I work the more I live” This is my mantra which encapsulates the intensely and sometimes uncomfortable feelings I explore when I’m creating in clay. When I am working on a new sculpture it feels as though it’s coming from places deep in my subconscious, the clay helping to shape and reshape my inner self. Frequently I feel that I have uncovered blocks of unwanted emotions after which I feel newly free and happy. Sometimes this exploration exposes shame, or pain, or anger, despair, death and always, intimacy.
I let my intuition guide me and I am often surprised at the result. I use pigments, colours and glazing - layering, removing, adding, subtracting - in order to nuance the rawness of each piece. This process melds, for me, my visions of identity, loss, anxiety, and loneliness. I want the experience of my work to be excruciatingly intimate, so that the viewer is “in” it with me. I believe, when we remove the glossy surfaces we display in our public lives, allowing ourselves to show our nakedness and vulnerability, only then do we try to live with courage and authenticity.
In my works you will experience with me, and beside me, a life and art in progress.Madeleine Chevalier was born in Montreal and earned her BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (B.C.) in 1996. She has exhibited in various venues in Vancouver and Montreal. She has been influenced by such artists as Kiki Smith, Berlinde de Bruyckere and Magda Gluszek. These artists create sculptures that reveal the human body and human life in all its frailty. The recurrent subject matter depicts human vulnerability which has informed and inspired her clay sculptures.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die…for the harder I work the more I live” This is my mantra which encapsulates the intensely and sometimes uncomfortable feelings I explore when I’m creating in clay. When I am working on a new sculpture it feels as though it’s coming from places deep in my subconscious, the clay helping to shape and reshape my inner self. Frequently I feel that I have uncovered blocks of unwanted emotions after which I feel newly free and happy. Sometimes this exploration exposes shame, or pain, or anger, despair, death and always, intimacy.
I let my intuition guide me and I am often surprised at the result. I use pigments, colours and glazing - layering, removing, adding, subtracting - in order to nuance the rawness of each piece. This process melds, for me, my visions of identity, loss, anxiety, and loneliness. I want the experience of my work to be excruciatingly intimate, so that the viewer is “in” it with me. I believe, when we remove the glossy surfaces we display in our public lives, allowing ourselves to show our nakedness and vulnerability, only then do we try to live with courage and authenticity.
In my works you will experience with me, and beside me, a life and art in progress.Madeleine Chevalier was born in Montreal and earned her BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (B.C.) in 1996. She has exhibited in various venues in Vancouver and Montreal. She has been influenced by such artists as Kiki Smith, Berlinde de Bruyckere and Magda Gluszek. These artists create sculptures that reveal the human body and human life in all its frailty. The recurrent subject matter depicts human vulnerability which has informed and inspired her clay sculptures.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die…for the harder I work the more I live” This is my mantra which encapsulates the intensely and sometimes uncomfortable feelings I explore when I’m creating in clay. When I am working on a new sculpture it feels as though it’s coming from places deep in my subconscious, the clay helping to shape and reshape my inner self. Frequently I feel that I have uncovered blocks of unwanted emotions after which I feel newly free and happy. Sometimes this exploration exposes shame, or pain, or anger, despair, death and always, intimacy.
I let my intuition guide me and I am often surprised at the result. I use pigments, colours and glazing - layering, removing, adding, subtracting - in order to nuance the rawness of each piece. This process melds, for me, my visions of identity, loss, anxiety, and loneliness. I want the experience of my work to be excruciatingly intimate, so that the viewer is “in” it with me. I believe, when we remove the glossy surfaces we display in our public lives, allowing ourselves to show our nakedness and vulnerability, only then do we try to live with courage and authenticity.
In my works you will experience with me, and beside me, a life and art in progress.Madeleine Chevalier was born in Montreal and earned her BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (B.C.) in 1996. She has exhibited in various venues in Vancouver and Montreal. She has been influenced by such artists as Kiki Smith, Berlinde de Bruyckere and Magda Gluszek. These artists create sculptures that reveal the human body and human life in all its frailty. The recurrent subject matter depicts human vulnerability which has informed and inspired her clay sculptures.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die…for the harder I work the more I live” This is my mantra which encapsulates the intensely and sometimes uncomfortable feelings I explore when I’m creating in clay. When I am working on a new sculpture it feels as though it’s coming from places deep in my subconscious, the clay helping to shape and reshape my inner self. Frequently I feel that I have uncovered blocks of unwanted emotions after which I feel newly free and happy. Sometimes this exploration exposes shame, or pain, or anger, despair, death and always, intimacy.
I let my intuition guide me and I am often surprised at the result. I use pigments, colours and glazing - layering, removing, adding, subtracting - in order to nuance the rawness of each piece. This process melds, for me, my visions of identity, loss, anxiety, and loneliness. I want the experience of my work to be excruciatingly intimate, so that the viewer is “in” it with me. I believe, when we remove the glossy surfaces we display in our public lives, allowing ourselves to show our nakedness and vulnerability, only then do we try to live with courage and authenticity.
In my works you will experience with me, and beside me, a life and art in progress.
