Sylviane De Roquebrune
Artist, Professor, Curator, Teacher.
Sylviane De Roquebrune has been a practicing artist and teacher for more than 20 years. She received her B.A. in Art Education Studies from Concordia University and an M.F.A. in Art Education and Studio Art from McGill University, both in Montreal. During her career she has had opportunities to instruct a diverse group of middle, high school and university students in Canada, USA and South East Asia. She has also been an art curator at York University in Toronto and the Art Education Director in Abu Dhabi working with the development of the Louvre, the Guggenheim and the British Museum.
Over the years Sylviane has continued to work and develop her artwork with mixed media and new techniques.
Artist Statement
Women Series
As a multimedia artist, I have been drawn to a wide range of art practices. Not entirely satisfied with any one explicitly, I enjoy the exploration of each separately and the interdisciplinary approach of cross-referencing, fusing, and the reinterpreting the established genres to find my own voice. Change is a constant in my work. Each different body of work delineates the evolution of ideas over the course of years of my practice.
My new work is inspired by women with extravagant hair or hairpieces and sometimes masks. Masked images emerge from an eclectic collection of mystical and visual images. We wear many masks at different times for different reasons as we interact with the world.
Processes and materials are the vocabulary, and the method of working in a series provides the syntax for my art. I cannot anticipate the direction the work might take but it is through the process of making things, be they drawings, paintings that I can begin to understand what the subconscious may already have known. Intuition is my guide. I follow it blindly and trust that it will get me where I never knew I wanted to go.
My over-arching goal in life as an artist is to define a style of my own and strive for a truth.
Sylviane De Roquebrune