Lise's Art practice: In Visual Arts I work mainly with water based paint, sometimes I use fibre and often I make sculptures by assemblage of natural or recycled wood. I love to work in series and get inspired by our new time.
The concept of identity is present in my artwork: as a member of our 21e century world (ex. Climat 2008), as a mother (ex. Birth Place 1998) and as a member of the Acadian people in search of all her roots (ex. Origines 2004). Most of the time, my artworks takes the forms of Installations made for a contextual indoor setting (ex. Bahrami-Robichaud : Correspondance pour la paix 2002) or for an outdoor specific site (ex. Longue vague déferlante 1999).
The thematic coming from those artwork come from intimate memories or historical memories or ecological memories so the notions of Nature and Culture is present. Those ideas are included in all my art production. A lecture of the content and the composition of those artwork reveals memories but also « numbers », design, rectangular forms, water « blue », presence of fibre, of poetry, assemblage of « wood », images of water, figurative images ; Acadian landscape etc. But most of all, those object that I create with wood or/and color have one thing in common, they talk about who I am as a human being. They communicate how I feel about our world so Visual Arts is a way for me to share ideas with others.
Personal reflection: Thinking about my art practice brings me to share that making Visual Art is the only way for me to feel complete. I have to confess that the Making of artistic things and the telling through art and the sharing with other through solo art show once this process (processus) of the activity of inventing an image or an object is done, it does fill an invisible specific space inside of me: A need to communicate to others something I feel that I have to tell through art with symbols organised in large spaces in 2D or/and in 3D.
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L.R. (c)Biography
Lise Robichaud is an Acadian artist from N.B. Canada creating paintings and installations. She studied visual arts at the Université de Moncton, at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and at Concordia University (Ph.D.). Her artwork deals with the concepts of identity, memory and climate changes.
Robichaud was selected for Artists’ residencies in Québec (Rouyn, Noranda). She represented Canada at the Symposium d’art actuel during the VIIIe Somment international de la Francophonie (1999) and was selected to participate at the 2004 Art Symposium in Poitiers (France). She exhibited in Montréal with a group of artists from Québec at the Centre des arts contemporain du Québec à Montréal. She was also commissioned for the project À l’ombre d’Évangéline III. Lise’s painting “Angelus” was shown at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton (NB) and at the Confederation Art Centre (PEI; 2010). A solo art show “Origines” at the Acadia University Art Gallery in Nova Scotia in 2004 merited her the Éloize de l’ Artiste de l’année 2005 en arts visuels from the AAAPNB. This award was given to her in Halifax (NS).
In 2002, the Festival des arts visuels en Atlantique invited her to preside the event. The AAAPNB named her Académicienne en arts visuels 2002-2004. With another artist from Moncton, she initiated and organised the women contemporary art show Presence 27 in Moncton (2000). A professor of art education at the Université de Moncton since 1988, Robichaud published many articles on the subject of visual art education, and is the author of the book Voir l’art des artistes acadiens du Nouveau-Brunswick (1990). Her most recent research (2011) is “Visual arts and mathematics: Intertwining for a new conversation in education” published In B. Sriraman & V. Freiman (Eds), Interdisciplinarity for the 21st Century. Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC.
Robichaud’s art work is published on many book and specialized magazines in Canada. Lise continues to work in art making large paintings and Installation In Situ using fiber, wood and color. Her next solo art show will be at the ARTsPlace gallery, an Artist Run Centre in Annapolis Royal (summer 2011).
In Espace sculpture, Heather Oke wrote this about Robichaud’s art work: « …cool post-modern photo-based objects…such as Mesure du Temps by Lise Robichaud. » (2001, p. 52). In the Times Globe, Sue McCluskey saw some mathematical content in Lise’s installations: “In the latest installation at The Space, Moncton artist Lise Robichaud’s Birth-place, numbers play a significant role, injecting a wealth of meaning into each portion of the exhibit. … Robichaud’s work in Birth-Place is subtly evocative, tying together myriad themes and motifs, using numbers and carefully-chosen symbols. Through repetition and evolution of its forms, Birth-Place is an installation that speaks of connectedness, the connectedness of place and time, of land and sea, and, finally, of birth and rebirth.” (1998, p.2) and the Canadian art critic, John Grande wrote good things about her art works in the Irish and international contemporary visual culture (2000, p. 21) and in Vie des Arts (2000, p.55).
