I am a visual artist based in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke, the unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory known as Québec, Canada. I have taught at Concordia University since 2006.

I have been making art about women, animals, and natural and urban landscapes for over 30 years. My work attends to relationships between human and more-than-human entities, particularly living landscapes. I have a passionate interest in historic gardens designed, cultivated, or preserved by women. In addition to visual art, I have produced collaborative and community-based art, often linked to gardens and urban landscapes. My work has been exhibited in Canada, England, the US, Australia, and France.

Painting and spatial practice are entwined trajectories in my art-making. Making images is the core of my art production as a solo artist. Engaging in and with space has been central to my collaborations with other artists and with communities. It is also at the heart of every residency I undertake. I am indebted to scholar and artist Jane Rendell for the term “critical spatial practice” for my understanding of how creative engagements with space need not be occupations of, but rather collaborations with a given site.

My approach depends upon the capacity to immerse myself deeply in a specific site, balancing my solitary encounters with the flora, fauna, climate, and acoustic ecology with my desire to learn from and engage with the human communities for whom the garden matters most. My next solo exhibition will take place in February 2026 at La Napoule Art Foundation, France.

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