“I’ve worked hard to have weaving recognized as an artistic technique, one that isn’t purely utilitarian. [...] That may have been my professional battle as an artist: to say that I had chosen textile, that I did not disavow it or disavow fine craft. I’m a fine craft artist.”
– Louise Lemieux Bérubé
Louise Lemieux Bérubé is a fine craft artist who works with textile and printing techniques. Louise’s work entitled Je rêve d’être un arbre is a multidisciplinary installation: weaving, printing, poetry. The work speaks to the importance of community, of trees and of artists. It was presented at the Centre d’art de La Sarre, and then at the Manufacture, in Roubaix, France, and as part of the Contextile biennial, in Portugal.
With Régine Mainberger, Louise founded the Centre des textiles contemporains de Montréal. With author Carole Green, from Los Angeles, she co-published her biography in both French (En déroulant la trame) and English (Unwinding the Threads). She was a city councillor for LaSalle for 12 years.
Louise has received the title of Chevalière de l’Ordre national du Québec and Compagne de l’Ordre du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
She has also received the Robert Jekyll Award from the Canadian Crafts Federation and she is member emerita of the Conseil des métiers d’art du Québec, which honoured her at its 2023 Salon.
Selected work
Louise Lemieux Bérubé, La La La Human Steps, 2006, cotton, linen, metal thread, 143 x 108 cm.
Photo credit: Louise Lemieux Bérubé
Louise Lemieux Bérubé, La ronde, 2011, Lyocell, stainless steel, copper, linen, wool, dye, 159 x 216 cm.
Photo credit: Louise Lemieux Bérubé
Louise Lemieux Bérubé, Un orteil dans le vide #1, 2011, Lyocell, stainless steel, copper, linen, wool, dye, 200 x 190 cm.
Photo credit: Louise Lemieux Bérubé
