Amélie Proulx
Arts/Industry: Pottery, 2017
Amélie Proulx is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with porcelain. She is interested in the possible shifts of meanings in language and in the perception of natural phenomena.
Proulx received a BFA from Concordia University in Montréal (2006) and an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax (2010). Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the U.S., Australia, France, and Scotland, notably at CIRCA art actuel (Montréal), the Art Gallery of Burlington (Ontario), the Northern Clay Center (Minneapolis), Céramique 14 (Paris), and the Barony Centre (Scotland).
In 2013, Proulx received the RBC Emerging Artist People’s Choice Award at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. She has participated in several residencies, notably at the Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium, 2006), the Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax, 2010), the European Ceramic Work Centre (The Netherlands, 2014), and the Guldargergaard International Ceramic Research Centre (Denmark, 2015).
Proulx lives in Saint-Nicolas (Canada), and teaches ceramics and visual arts at the Maison des métiers d’art de Québec and at Cégep Sainte-Foy (Québec City). She is represented by Galerie 3 in Québec City.
