Marie-Chantal Poirier

As a multidisciplinary artist, I explore a wide range of genres, including painting
materials, photoengraving, sculpture and fine crafts.
However, my heart tends mainly towards the sculptural. I work mainly in clay,
accompanied by wood and metal. My world is one of space, materiality and circularity.
circularity. My themes, whether in sculpture or painting, are highly varied and depend on the "bubbles" that flow through me.
bubbles" that cross my mind. The ones that touch me deeply are mental illness
and femininity in all its forms.
I'm drawn to decorative art, but also to furniture as an aesthetic representation,
an encounter between several disciplines such as craft, art, sculpture and design, in an
interdisciplinary creative process. Part of my work is part of a practice of "artist's furniture".
of "artist's furniture". Can an object have both an artistic and a utilitarian purpose?
utilitarian object? This questioning has led me to create sculptural works that have several
several levels of interpretation: art object, furniture object, or both. I draw my inspiration from the
and that's why my creations often have anthropomorphic forms, particularly
particularly feminine.
As far as colors are concerned, in both my sculptural and pictorial works, I almost always use
warm, soothing colors and patinas inspired by the colors of earth or metal.
I also create jewelry, hand-sculpted in clay and then finished with glazes, engobes
and patinas as for sculptures.