Le Labo 2015

Artist list

Angela Marzinotto, Anne-Marie Rébillard, Annie Loiseau, Catherine Granche, Catherine Sheedy, Emilie Dell’Aniello, Gabrielle Desmarais, Isabelle Métivier, Karine Rodrigue, Katia Martel, Lidia Raymond, Magali Thibault Gobeil, Marianne Séguin, Marie-Maude Brunet, Maude Lauzière-Dumas, Nazanin Rostami, Samuel Gélinas Lemay, Véronique Roy, Émilie Trudel, Évelyne Bounadère

To mark the fifth anniversary of Le Labo, a laboratory devoted to creativity and design in contemporary jewellery, Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h presents an exhibition of innovative and unusual new work by twenty emerging artists from across Quebec.

A project dedicated to creativity, exploration, experimentation and reflection, Le Labo was initiated by gallery director Noel Guyomarc’h in 2010. Its goal is to develop approaches in conceptual, aesthetic and visual research in order to open up new creative avenues. The workshop, which takes place over a two-year period, has allowed a number of young artists to express themselves and to shed light on their imaginary universe, their personality, and their exploration of contemporary jewellery and its interpretation.
Early on, their works were viewed in many exhibitions and shared on a number of specialized websites and on social media, both nationally and internationally. For example, Émilie Trudel was the recipient of the 2012 Prix François-Houdé, awarded by the Ville de Montréal and the Conseil des métiers d’art du Québec for excellence in the craft arts, for a project produced during the Le Labo. In addition to receiving the 2014 Prix des arts de la culture, awarded by the Ville de Québec, Anne-Marie Rébillard was selected for the prestigious international exhibition, Schmuck 2015, presented last March in Munich. A 2010 graduate of the École de Joaillerie de Montréal, Gabrielle Desmarais already has a work in the permanent collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

In addition, a number of these artists have participated in events in Toronto, as part of the lecture series presented by the Society of North American Goldsmiths, and in Vancouver, for exhibitions organized by artist Barbara Cohen at the Circle Craft Gallery. During Design Sans Frontières: Artists in Collaboration, an exhibition at Toronto’s Design Exchange museum, Catherine Sheedy was the recipient of the Best in Show Award for a work created with Sébastien Martel in 2013. This month, in an exhibition at Mode & Design Montréal, designer and Le Devoir contributor Jean-Claude Poitras featured four of these artists: Gabrielle Desmarais, Angela Marzinotto, Véronique Roy and Catherine Granche.

A    catalogue   of   the   participants’   works   will   be   available   during   the   exhibition.

La Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h wishes to thank SODEC for its support in producing the catalogue and this exhibition.

Opening: September 18 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Wednesday 11h-18h
                                 Thursday - Friday 11h-19h
                                 Saturday 11h-17h
                                 Sunday 12h-17h