Helene Mc Nicoll
Château-Richer, QC
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Working from imprints, Helene Mc Nicoll creates mural sculpture with discarded cotton textile fibers and other plant fibers. Her intriguing artifacts bear witness to current conjunctions between plants, animals and the products of human industry. They leave quasi-archaeological traces. Struggle but collaboration, invasion and cohabitation; the urban and the suburban present, in a concentrated way, the inescapable amalgam of everything that tries to live. Former co-owner of the Canyon Sainte-Anne nature park near Quebec City, Hélène Mc Nicoll fought long and hard to have the canyon's banks classified as a “conservation area”; her artistic work stems from this struggle. Her favorite areas of observation are city centers and suburbs, which now constitute the intersection zones where most humans perceive part of the entanglement existing between themselves and other living beings. In 2024, she completed her bachelor's degree in visual arts at Laval University after spending part of her studies in France. Hélène is a member of Engramme, an artist-run center specialized in printmaking.
