Nicole Fournier

Fournier has her roots in Quebec, Trinidad, Antigua and St-Kitts. In
the late 1980's and early 1990's Nicole Fournier was active doing
multimedia performance, alongside being a painter and graphic designer
in audiovisual. She re-emerged with her involvement in la Centrale in
the late 90?s, soon to follow was the exhibiting of installation work
and the taking up of performance once again through Play Group, as well
as doing solo performance work.

From carrying a briefcase of lawn, conditionning roots near a
graveyard, to eating basil, to cutting nipple hair, to rolling corn
"hair" and her own hair in her hands, to doing a questioning walk,
cutting down corn plants and digging earth in a genetically modified
cornfield, dressed in protective motocycle gear or safety vest, to
making noise in a galerie and theatre space cutting through the air
with a weedeater, drill, razer or vaccum, her actions are informed by
the personal, social/ organizational/systemic and political
interconnections between nature, culture, agriculture, health and art.
Fournier completed a Diploma in Environmental Studies at McGill
university in 2005, and has a BFA1993 from Concordia university. Coming
out of the visual arts tradition from painting to performance art and
more recently with links to Land Art, her interdisciplinary approach
involves research informed by environmental, human and social
interrelationships, with a desire to interconnect ecological,
individual and community concerns with art. Fournier has performed in
Quebec, New York and Sardinia (Italy).