Clara Lou Micheau (elle/she)
Born in 1997, Sherbrooke, Canada
Lives and works in Montréal
Born in 1997, Sherbrooke, Canada
Lives and works in Montréal
Biography
Clara Lou Micheau is a visual artist living and working in Montreal (Canada), who grew up between Sherbrooke (Canada) and Poitou-Charente (France). She creates sculptural ceramics and interdisciplinary installations. The galerie Espace Limina exhibited her first solo show in 2023, entitled “Portraits en Échappée”. In 2022, she obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction from Concordia University. Her work has been presented at Vitrine sur l'Art (Montreal), La Station (Verdun), Gham & Dafe (Montreal), Proof Studio Gallery (Toronto) and more. In 2023, she attended a ceramic residency residency at Centre Medalta, in Alberta (Canada); and in 2019 a residency in Denmark at the Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center. In recent years, her work has been financially supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. She is the founder of the collective @cerameme and the co-founder of the collective Atelier 315.
Artist Statement
Clara Lou Micheau is a multidisciplinary visual artist. She makes installations, sculptures and medias that explore the self, nature, and society through the prism of scenographic magical realism. She specializes in the ceramics medium with which she showcases an extensive technical knowledge. She also works with a variety of other mediums: mold making, laser engraving, 3D printing, painting, and digital visuals. Her work is poetic and metaphorical; as well as deeply anchored in materiality with plays on scale, space, and textures. She uses the shared visual literacy around animals, habitats, and tales. It makes her work approachable to the public besides serving her themes and engaging layers of meaning. As of lately, her work discusses the landscape in anthropocentrism, the physicality of traditions through mediums like ceramics and the agents to one’s identity.