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Brigitte Thériault
Photography, design, pottery, writing...
training
1991-1994 Cégepdu Vieux-Montréal, technique in photography.
1995-1996 Concordia University, minor in photography and film.
Professional photographer
Since the beginning of the 90s, I have been multiplying contracts, both for the media and fashion magazines, and for artists, actors and musicians. Mhe career begins with the realization of artist's portrait for the newspaper Voir de Québec ( Patrick Huard, The Respectable, Paul Ohl, etc). Dn addition, I am a photographer assigned to accompany Mcgill University researchers during a stay on the island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean. I am also assistant to the culinary photographer Christian Lacroix. In 1997, I spent a few months in Miami and created portfolios for existing agencies (Elite, Ford, Next). I also collaborated on various factual magazines (7 jours, Dernière Heure - Garry Carter, Pelipe Alou) and Quebec fashion magazines (Les Ailes de la mode). I am the main photographer for Adorable magazine for a period of 5 years (Abeille et Mitsou Gélinas, Moist, Annie Pelletier...). In 1998, I officially started my company, Studio B.T. Inc. My studio and darkroom is located inside the chapel of the Good Shepherd on de la Chevrotière Street in Quebec City. At the same time, I acquire the model and actor agency Carmelli founded 10 years earlier by Marie-Hélène Fortin. I act as an artist agent and photographer, Studio B.T. is still active to this day but the modeling agency was sold to a third party in 2001. It is a photographic period focused on fashion, portraiture and advertising. Since 2005, I concentrate my work more on design and deco, I create a large clientele in this field and photograph for a period of 10 years the most beautiful decors made in la belle province. My photographs appear in several decoration magazines in Quebec and especially the Sofadeco magazine for which I worked intensely for a period of 5 years. Sporadically, I give lectures and act as a teacher during photographic workshops, I am also invited as a judge and mentor during photo contests in the Quebec City area (Société des photographes artisans de Québec - SPAQ, Laval University, Notre-Dame-De-Foy College and the Centre de formation professionnelle en photographie Maurice Barbeau).ART
It is in 2007 that my large format minimalist works, created in the traditional 6×7 format with various 120 films, entered the world of art galleries in Quebec City. Since then,my photographs have been represented in galleries in Quebec City, Montreal, Toronto and New York. To date, a little over 300 of my photographic works are in private collections around the world.
In the spring of 2011 and for a brief period of one year, I am opening my own art gallery. Galerie-Studio Brigitte Thériault opens its doors in this magnificent space located in the historic sector of Old Quebec, at 39 Dalhousie Street. At the same time, a little before this period in 2010, with the help of three visual artists from the Quebec City area, Annie Lévesque painter, Sébastien Tardif artist and acrobat and Claire-Alexie Turcot scupteure, we create a group to found the Galerie Ni Vu Ni Cornu. The official opening of the gallery located in the historic sector of Ste-Anne De Beaupré near the Cathedral took place in the spring of 2011, the gallery is still in operation to this day... The Ni Vu Ni Cornu gallery celebrates its fifth anniversary, by Michèle Laferrière of the newspaper Le Soleil_Published May 20, 2016http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/maison/deco/201605/20/01-4983670-la-galerie-ni-vu-ni-cornu-fete-ses-cinq-ans.php
Since 2008, my photographs are regularly rented through Dimension Plus gallery in Montreal and Art Gallery of Hamilton in Toronto for television series, commercials and film productions, such as Liverpool, by Manon Briand and Café de flores, by Jean-Marc Vallée. In 2014, she will be contacted by the very famous gallery Hamburd Kennedy Photographs from New York, where she appears for a limited time of 3 years, alongside artists such as Man Ray, De Koonig, Basquiat, Warhol and others. That same year, five of her photos were nominated for the Photography Masters Cup Competition.BT Fine Art (Photographic Film, Pentax + Various Films 120)
"It was in 1988, at the age of 14, that photography struck me as an extraordinary means of expression. At that time, photography was still sacred, the darkroom was my favorite place, the smell of the chemical baths, its tranquility and the red light, it was magic!" The BT Film Photo collections represent this lost magic, each image was taken with a traditional 6×7 pentax camera and various 120 film. "When beauty is around, life is more beautiful. Beautiful things, people, attitudes and places fascinate me and make me feel good, that's why I like to share my photographs and inspire people, as I myself have been inspired by others." "According to me, there is nothing more beautiful in art than organized chaos according to natural laws from which emerges harmony that we all look for. through my photos, i apply myself to show that every element surrounding us is a living work of art that needs to be respected and protected." I use a traditional approach: shooting slides or films mainly in 6×7 format camera. i carefully select images that are then retouched with computer programs such as photoshop allowing me to give each photo its unique flair and create a world governed by both the real and the imaginary.Exhibitions & Distinctions :
2018- April to June, Unis Vert L'Art presents the group show ''Unis Vert l'Intemporel''. The exhibition brings together the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, the hotel's artifacts to be recycled into artworks and several renowned artists such as Gilles Vigneault, Olivier Martineau and Don Darby.- For the U.V.A. project I wanted to create a world of fantasy around the Queen, I imagined Elisabeth in a Hawaiian Garden of Eden, playing with the taste of freedom. I chose as artifacts 2 mirrors edged with gold ornaments, and I created 2 photographic works from my place of residence at the time, Kauai, Hawaii. It is through the invigorating jungle of Henna, north of Kauai, a place renowned as one of the most majestic and paradisiacal places in the world, that the idea matured. With the help of my 2 accomplices, Marc époux and Christine muse, that I made and imagined my 2 future works, "Queen's Fantasy" and "How could she believe in it".
2016- Art'chipel gallery. Lévis, Quebec, Canada - Senegal. film photography, archive paper print. solo exhibition.
2016- IDS show, Toronto. chq12-y sold out, last piece fromChâteauallantvert collective exhibition. U.V.A, collective project.
2015 - Isola Festival, Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Oct 15-18
2015 - Louvre, Paris, digital exhibition by SEE.ME. 2015 july 13th.
2014 -5 nominations for the Photography Masters Cup competition
2014 - Peach Edition, Hamburg Kennedy Photographs gallery, New York city
* affordable art fair, New York city, http://affordableartfair.com/newyork/visit/
2013 -See.me New-York city, story of the creative
2013 - Fine art category momination for the Photography Master Cup competition:
*The little warrior
2013 -Artavitacontest
*honorable mention forSymbol, Saint Lucia, Caribbean.
2013-14 -Art gallery of Hamilton, spring sales.
2013 - IDS show, Toronto, collective exhibition with artist Paule Dionne.
***recipient of a Sodec grant
2012 - Châteauallantvert at the Château Frontenac, Québec city, Canada. collective exhibition.
Vernissage in the company of famous Quebec poet Gilles Vigneault
http://www.unisvertlart.com/chateau.html 2012- April 14th 2012 : le Soleil's paper: architecture rejuvanates a local distric - "Return" 48×38, featured 2012- The obstacle - was chosen to represent the stardom dimension in the new picture of Manon Briand's Liverpool. 2011- Ffire 5th edition, at the coop Ecto, Montreal. collective exhibition.2011 - Far East, galerie le 1040, Montreal, Canada. collective exhibition.
2003 - Mixed Theme, Galerie Rouge, Québec city, Canada.
2000 - Architectural fish. Bonsecours market, Shownal, Canada. collective exhibition.
- Heart of America. Journées de la culture, Que.bec city, Canada. solo exhibition
- Architectonic Fish ( Mackerels). View gallery, Que.bec city, collective.
1996 - Architectonic Fish ( Speckled trout). Ecocenter of Duchesnay, Québec city,
collective exhibition.
1995 - Architectonic Fish (Herring). Perspective gallery, Québec, Canada. solo.
*Artistic approach Imperceptible presence Sabrina Clitandre, M.A., art historian. 2008 To appreciate Brigitte Thériault's photographic works is to share with her the privileged moments she has captured. Thanks to her visual tact, she looks at nature and humanizes it through gentle and accurate interventions. The artist's metamorphosed natures offer a focal point where the best of nature and human ingenuity converge. Brigitte Thériault has an instinctive mastery of the laws of harmonious composition. She is fond of logical arrangement, the repetition of certain elements that allows for visual harmony. Thériault commits herself in a photographic space where nature is imbued with poetry. Michaël Lachance, Canadian art critic, essayist. 2015 As an artist-photographer divided between two strong currents in photography, Brigitte Thériault claims to be both a neo-pictorialist artist-photographer and a creative photographer. Without opposing the colour approach to creative photography, the Canadian photographer does not reduce her field of action to a discourse on photography. An impressionist artist, she submits her photographic eye to the film, she cultivates raw instinct. As a globetrotter, she is ingenious in bringing out the beauty of a landscape, of a fleeting moment taken on the sly, her work is resolutely aesthetic, she approaches photography like a painting. She paints with light while dipping her images in a translucency that blurs reality, she covers it with an illusory veil that transgresses objectivity and gives the artist's work an aesthetic facture that brings her closer to Gyula Halasz (Brassai). For Brigitte Thériault, photography translates a dreamlike utopia, like a Portuguese saudade, a place of sweet and nostalgic happiness. This thirst for untamed freedom, this quest for the sublime and ideal, so dear to romantic spirits, is revealed in her "Vivia" and "Pastel" series, two series that oppose light and darkness, lost paradise and realism, languor and happiness, solitude and family. What is more, the sublimated nature, these great desert spaces, these winter clouds on summer impression, these blurred added to increase or disguise reality, give to see works that constantly defy beauty, it borrows from nature by beam, by flash, without ever perverting it. BT author 2008- Book Papas. Texts and photographs, a tribute to fatherhood. Éditions La Presse 128p. Since 2010, Brigitte's photo reports have been published in various media such as newspapers, magazines and blogs (travel and inspiration). 2016- Find your gift to achieve success http://www.simplementjudith.com/2016/05/24/trouvez-don-atteindre-succes/ 2015- The importance of finding your gift to achieve sucess. successstory.com. http://successstory.com/inspiration/the-importance-of-finding-your-gift-to achieve-success Travel Photo-Account. his photo stories are published throughout the province of Quebec. 2016- Senegal, Africa. Nomade magazine https://nomademagazine.com/2016/05/6083/ 2013- The MarocInch'allah. sofadeco magazine, vol 8 no 1. 2012- The BarbadeLike a jewel. Sofadeco magazine, vol 6 no 5. 2012- Hawaii in family, Aloha! Le Soleil and La Presse. 2010- GuadeloupeDream of guadeloupe. Sofadeco magazine. *summer 2014- interview about Hawaii Gendron family experience. Hawaii, new life! Since 2013, I have been living the great adventure of leaving Quebec for the Hawaiian archipelago. I settle in the north of the island of Kauai with my husband and our three children aged 8, 10 and 13 years old at the time. The photo story of this epic is told on the blog of this website. I am taking this commercial break to focus more on his art photography as well as on the creation of "photo-design". Made with my photos of Hawaiian vegetation, and printed on various textiles, I make floral designs, print on beautiful fabrics, and then create bags, cushions etc. BTBAG is launched in the fall of 2017. https://www.etsy.com/fr/shop/BTBAG *Summer 2014- star host Josey Arsenault of Quebec City's FM93 station receives Brigitte during her show "Josey's World" .- I tell the story of our family adventure in Hawaii.
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Press / Media
2017- July 15 and 16, studio visit and exhibition, collection 2007 to 2015. Brigitte's residence. 1565, Boul.Louis xiv, Quebec, Canada.ARTV. by Alex Beausoleil
http://blogue.artv.ca/2017/08/artiste-a-decouvrir-brigitte-theriault-photographe/ Le Soleil, by Michèle Laferrière. Objectif Beauté between Quebec City and Hawaii http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/maison/habitation/201707/26/01-5119595-objectif-beaute-entre-quebec-et-hawai.php Charlesbourg Express, from Charlesbourg to Hawaii. http://www.charlesbourgexpress.com/culture/2017/7/26/de-charlesbourg-a-hawai.html Radio-Cacada, programme Première Heure. Brigitte Thériault's exotic nature http://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/premiere-heure/segments/entrevue/31011/brigitte-theriault-photographe-kauai-hawaii https://www.facebook.com/brigittetheriault.fineartfilmphoto/videos/1473101686080168/?hc_ref=arsmcsez0wrkplosvbdy2ti9rktyq8rzhxbkkjlkgqtx2vrzl3uczliyuntfhboryvy2016- The Ni Vu Ni Cornu gallery celebrates its fifth anniversary, by Michèle Laferrière of the newspaper Le Soleil_Published May 20
http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/maison/deco/201605/20/01-4983670-la-galerie-ni-vu-ni-cornu-fete-ses-cinq-ans.php
2015- Radio-Canada, Galerie Ni Vu Ni Cornu, interview with Anne-Josée Cameron
https://www.facebook.com/annejosee.cameron/videos/1176577679036611/?pnref=story
2015- Ni Vu Ni Cornu Gallery
http://www.clubdescollectionneursenartsvisuelsdequebec.com/?p=1322
2014- Those Quebec City artists who decorate our walls / home guide. February 27th by Marie-Ève Côté http://www.guidehabitation.ca/blogue/ces-artistes-de-quebec-qui-decorent-nos-murs/
2014- Josey Arsenault of Quebec City's FM93 station receives Brigitte during her show "Le monde de Josey".
2013- Montreal Home Mag publishes 8 pages on BT's work.
2013- Sofadeco magazine, published works:
-The forest of white flakes ( sold out/disontinued ) 2013- Spring sales! Art Gallery of Hamilton in Toronto. 5 small works exhibited and sold.2013- Interior Design show in Toronto (IDS).Le Soleil,Deux québécoises se distinguer à Toronto by Michèle LaFerrière.
2013- Hey you 3/30 (1/10 medium size) sold by Artbomb!
http://www.artbombdaily.com/ 2013- Workshop, Color vs. Black & White With Pierre Choquette, SPAQ ( Société des photographes artisans de Québec )2012-Magazine La vie de château.Joueurs de cuivre, by Diane Laberge. Portrait of BT and the Unis Vert l'art project (UVA).
2011- The Sun. Brigitte Thériault's Great Horizons, by Michèle LaFerrière.
http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/maison/deco/201111/25/01-4471826-les-grands-horizons-de-brigitte-theriault.php
2011-Le Soleil, visual arts, "Le diable est aux arts" by Josianne Desloges. Portrait of theNi vu ni cornu gallery when it opens in spring 2011.
2010- Sofadeco magazine, artist's portrait.
http://www.sofadeco.com/artiste_details.php?artiste=786#.VnBIf2Txyko
2008- The art magazineParcours draws a portrait of BT, "Women in the Visual Arts" by Jacques Bélanger.
2008- Brigitte Thériault co-authored her first book,Papas, published by ÉditionsLapresse. Gilles Parent devotes a moment of airtime to the book launch on his show, "Le retour de Gilles Parent. »
*Link, print media dads
1. http://planete.qc.ca/culture/livres/quebecoisessais/quebecoisessais-362008-148959.html
2. http://www.charlesbourgexpress.com/culture/2008-05-21/article-1187511/brigitte-theriault-collabore-au-livre-«papas»/1, 3- http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/prestige/prestige_juillet08/2009050401/184.html#184
1995- JournalLe Soleil.Au plus-que-que-parfait de l'objectif, by Dany Quine. Galerie Perspective, Québec. from the series Poisson Architectonique, Le hareng. Solo.