Lucie Duval is a visual artist. For many years, her work has revolved around an interference between what is read and what is seen, a journey where words play with objects and images. Born in Mont-Laurier, she lives and works in the Eastern Townships. She studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse, graduating in 1983 with a Diplôme National Supérieur d'Expression Plastique (DNSEP), with congratulations from the jury. She has exhibited regularly in North America, Europe and Asia. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Musée national des Beaux-Arts du Québec, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke, art loans from the Canada Council for the Arts and private collections. In 2010, she published the book Histoires à tirer par les oreilles. She has carried out a number of public art projects, and for the past ten years has been rediscovering the exquisite pleasure of making inks and thus slowing down the speed of the world (or so she believes).
"For me, ink is a source of exploration and revelation (rather like the darkroom of yesteryear). It corresponds to a certain lack of patience; I enjoy watching things appear in front of me instantly… Ironically, using ink is also about slowing down the speed of the world – a frantic, voracious world – leading to a handmade mastery and sense of well-being. To make ink drawings is to use a humble, accessible material that permits you to be the master of your own production, even though a daring, unrepentant gesture often leads you elsewhere: ‘It’s never perfect, sometimes it’s better”. It’s a necessary return to the very act of creation, the hand incarnate as a tentacular extension of the brain.” -LD