About
Anne-Marie Groulx lives and work in Quebec City. Having been trained in ethnology, crafts and visual arts, her work questions the object’s status and describes current material culture. Her work has been shown at the Guild (2015, Montréal), at the Artist Project (2017, Toronto), at Materia (2019, Quebec City) and at Espace Parenthèses (2020, Quebec City). She participated in an art residency in Iceland in 2019 and also presented her work there.
Statement
I create abstract textile objects which act as witnesses to their own production. In the process of making these sculptures, there is a constant movement between decision-making (intention, formal choices) and constraints imposed by materials and techniques. Quite often, the initial choices are overthrown by constraints – never the opposite; thus, the form generates itself. I make a connection between my work and generative art that emerges from a system, rules and constraints. Ultimately, I wish to create objects that are the only compromises that can possibly exist between the initial idea and the feasibility. This way of working puts forward the potentiality of materials and techniques. With a semi-scientific research process, I create witnesses of what only a specific technique or material can do, of what justifies using them.
Resume
Education
| Graduated 2021 | Bachelor in Visual and Media Arts | Laval University, Québec City |
| Graduated 2015 | Technical degree: Crafts – Textile construction | Maison des métiers d’art (MMAQ), Cégep Limoilou, Québec City |
| 2010-2011 | 30 credits completed: Bachelor in Fine arts – Textile major | NSCAD, Halifax |
| Graduated 2009 | Pre-university degree : Visual arts | Cégep de Sainte-Foy, Québec City |
Residency
| 2019 | TC2 residency | Textílmiðstöð, Blönduòs, Iceland |
Advanced training
| 2019 | E-textiles | Ryth Kesselring, MMAQ, Québec |
| 2018 | TC2 weaving | Cathryn Amydei, The Jacquard Center, Hendersonville, USA |
| 2018 | Ondulé weaving | Amy Putansu, Clyde, USA |
| 2018 | Pointcarré software | Louise Lemieux-Bérubé, MMAQ, Québec |
| 2017 | CMYK process screenprinting | Samuel Breton, Engramme, Québec |
| 2015-2016 | Private mentoring in electronics integrated to textiles | Amélie Proulx, Québec |
Awards and grants
| 2019 | Travel grant | LOJIQ – Residency project in Iceland |
| 2019 | Personal development grant | Surface Design Association – Residency project in Iceland |
| 2019 | Creation Grant | CALQ, Crafts – Residency project in Iceland |
| 2019 | Creation Grant | Première Ovation, Crafts – Residency project in Iceland |
| 2018 | Travel grant | LOJIQ – Specialized workshops in North Carolina |
| 2018 | Training grant | CALQ – Specialized workshops in North Carolina |
| 2017 | Travel grant | LOJIQ – European Craft Days, Paris |
| 2017 | Production grant (acquisition of equipment) | SODEC, Emerging artist |
| 2016 | Travel grant | CALQ, Emerging artist – Artist Project, Toronto |
| 2015 | Creation Grant | Première Ovation, Crafts |
| 2015 | Grand Prix MMAQ |
| 2015 | Prix Telus Expression Textile |
Professional experience
| Since 2018 | Invited expert | École en Réseau, everywhere in the Province of Quebec | Assisting classes of all levels online to create textile and digital art |
| Since 2017 | College educator in weaving (advanced and introductory courses) | MMAQ, Québec |
| Since 2017 | Private mentoring in Jacquard weaving with artists |
| 2017 | Jury member – Visual arts, crafts and media arts grant | Première Ovation, Manif d’art, Québec |
Solo exhibitions
| 2021 | System-joint-object-mass | Espace Parenthèses, Québec |
| 2017 | Tropicamour | Aliette-Marchand Library, Québec |
| 2017 | Tropicamour | Paul-Aimé-Paiement Library, Québec |
Collective exhibitions
| 2020 | Artroduction | Galerie 3, Québec |
| 2020 | Outdoor exhibition | Selected from the Première Ovation 2018-2019 cohort. Manif d’art, Québec |
| 2020 | Encann’: Ça déménage | Invited artist, online auction. Centre Regart, Lévis |
| 2019 | Textile stories | Residency exhibition, Textílmiðstöð, Blönduòs, Iceland |
| 2019 | Jacquard and abstraction | Centre Materia, Québec | Curator : Jeanne Couture |
| Since 2017 | Le musée ambulant (Travelling Museum) | Travelling exhibition in elementary schools in the Province of Quebec | Curator and educator : Jeanne Couture and Catherine-Ève Gadoury |
| 2017 | Artist Project, Untapped Emerging Artist Competition | Better Living Center, Toronto |
| 2015 | Néon | Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montréal |
Publication
| 2020 | Première Ovation – Volume 10, 2018-2019 cohort |
| 2020 | Icelandic Textile Center Art Residency Catalogue – 2019 | Anne-Marie Groulx, p.62-63 |
| 2018 | Complex Weavers Journal – October 2018, No. 118 | Tropicamour, Anne-Marie Groulx’s first two solo shows, by Anie Toole, p.6-8. |
| 2017 | Première Ovation – Volume 7, 2015-2016 cohort | Foreword by Stéphanie Requin Trembay p.13 / Main article p.50-51 |
Collections and other diffusion
| 2020 | Artroduction online platform | Galerie 3, Québec |
| 2020 | Private collection | Quebec |
| 2017 | Private collection | Paris |
| 2017 | Le musée ambulant | Québec |
Involvement
| 2018… | Surface Design Association member | Las Vegas, USA |
| 2017… | Member and head of the Jacquard weaving research committee | MMAQ, Québec |