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Brigitte Thériault
Photography, design, pottery, writing...
training
1991-1994 Cégep du Vieux-Montréal, photography technique.
1995-1996 Concordia University , minor in photography and cinema.
Professional photographer
Since the early 1990s, I have taken on numerous contracts, working with media outlets and fashion magazines, as well as artists, actors, and musicians. My career began with artist portraits for the Quebec City newspaper Voir (Patrick Huard, The Respectable, Paul Ohl, etc.). I was also the designated photographer to accompany researchers from McGill University during a stay on the island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean. I also worked as an assistant to food photographer Christian Lacroix. In 1997, I spent a few months in Miami, creating portfolios for established agencies (Elite, Ford, Next). I also contributed to various news magazines (7 Jours, Dernière Heure – Garry Carter, Pelipe Alou) and Quebec fashion magazines (Les Ailes de la Mode). I was the lead photographer for Adorable magazine for five years (Abeille and Mitsou Gélinas, Moist, Annie Pelletier, etc.). In 1998, I officially launched my business, Studio BT Inc. My studio and darkroom were located inside the Chapel of the Good Shepherd on Rue de la Chevrotière in Quebec City. At the same time, I acquired the Carmelli modeling and acting agency, founded 10 years earlier by Marie-Hélène Fortin. I acted as an agent for artists and photographers. Studio BT is still active today, but the modeling agency was sold to a third party in 2001. This was a period of photography focused on fashion, portraiture, and advertising. Since 2005, I have concentrated my work more on design and decor, building a large clientele in this field and photographing the most beautiful interiors in Quebec for a period of 10 years. My photographs have appeared in several Quebec decorating magazines, and especially in Sofadeco, for which I worked extensively for five years. I occasionally give lectures and act as a teacher in photography workshops; I am also invited as a judge and mentor at photo competitions in the Quebec City region (Société des photographes artisans de Québec – SPAQ, Université Laval, collège Notre-Dame-De-Foy and the Maurice Barbeau professional photography training centre).ART
It was in 2007 that my large-format minimalist works, created in the traditional 6x7 format using 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, just over 300 of my photographic works are part of private collections worldwide.
In the spring of 2011, for a brief period of one year, I undertook the opening of my own art gallery. Galerie-Studio Brigitte Thériault opened its doors in this magnificent space located in the historic district of Old Quebec, at 39 Dalhousie Street. Concurrently, a little before this period in 2010, with the help of three visual artists from the Quebec City region—Annie Lévesque, painter; Sébastien Tardif, artist and acrobat; and Claire-Alexie Turcot, sculptor—we formed a group to found Galerie Ni Vu Ni Cornu. The official opening of the gallery, located in the historic district of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, near the Cathedral, took place in the spring of 2011, and the gallery is still operating today. The Ni Vu Ni Cornu gallery celebrates its fifth anniversary, by Michèle Laferrière of the newspaper Le Soleil_Published on 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 have been regularly rented through the Dimension Plus gallery in Montreal and the Art Gallery of Hamilton in Toronto for television series, advertisements and film productions, such as Liverpool, by Manon Briand and Café de flores, by Jean-Marc Vallée. In 2014, she was contacted by the highly regarded Hamburg Kennedy Photographs gallery in New York, where she was represented for a limited time of three years, alongside artists such as Man Ray, De Koonig, Basquiat, Warhol, and others. That same year, five of her photographs were nominated for the Photography Masters Cup Competition.BT Fine Art (Photography film, Pentax + 120 various films)
“It was in 1988, at the age of 14, that photography appeared to 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 tranquil aspect and the red lighting, it was magical!” The ''BT Film Photo'' collections represent this lost magic; each image was taken with a traditional Pentax 6×7 camera and various 120 films. “When beauty is all around, life is more beautiful. Beautiful things, people, attitudes and places fascinate me and make me feel good, which is why I like to share my photographs and inspire people, just 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 & Awards:
2018 - April to June, Unis Vert L'Art presents the group exhibition "Unis Vert l'Intemporel". The exhibition brings together the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, the hotel's artifacts to be recycled into works of art, and several renowned artists such as Gilles Vigneault, Olivier Martineau, and Don Darby.- For the UVA project, I wanted to create a fantasy world around the Queen. I imagined Elizabeth in a Hawaiian Garden of Eden, playing with the concept of freedom. I chose two mirrors framed in gold as artifacts, and I created two photographic works based on my former residence, Kauai, Hawaii. It was amidst the invigorating Henna Jungle in North Kauai, a place renowned as one of the most majestic and paradisiacal in the world, that the idea matured. With the help of my two partners, Marc (my husband) and Christine (my muse), I crafted and conceived my two future works, “Queen’s Fantasy” and “How Could She Have Believed It?”
2016 - Art'chipel gallery. Lévis, Quebec, Canada – Senegal. Film photography, archive paper print. Solo exhibition.
2016- IDS show, Toronto. chq12-y sold, last piece from C hâteauallantvert collective exhibition. UVA, 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 nomination for the Photography Master Cup competition:
* The Little Warrior
2013 – Artavita contest
*honorable mention for Symbol , Saint Lucia, Caribbean.
2013-14 -Art gallery of Hamilton, spring sales.
2013 – IDS show, Toronto, collective exhibition with artist Paule Dionne.
***r recipient of a Sodec grant
2012 – Châteauallantvert at the Château Frontenac, Quebec 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 rejuvenates a local district – “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, gallery le 1040, Montreal , Canada. collective exhibition.
2003 – Mixed theme, Galerie Rouge, Quebec City, Canada.
2000 – Architectural Fish. Bonsecours Market, Montreal , Canada. Group exhibition.
– Heart of America. Culture Days , Quebec City, Canada. Solo exhibition
– Architectural Fish (Mackerel). Vue Gallery, Quebec City, collective.
1996 – Architectural Fish (The Speckled Trout). Ecocenter of Duchesnay, Quebec City.
collective exhibition.
1995 – Architectural Fish (The Herring). Perspective gallery, Quebec , Canada. Solo.
*Artistic approach Imperceptible presence Sabrina Clitandre, MA, art historian. 2008 To appreciate Brigitte Thériault's photographic works is to share with her the special moments she has captured. With her keen eye, she observes nature and humanizes it through gentle and precise interventions. The artist's transformed landscapes offer a focal point where the best of nature and human ingenuity converge. Instinctively mastering the principles of harmonious composition, Brigitte Thériault favors logical arrangement and the repetition of certain elements to create visual harmony. Thériault's work unfolds within a photographic space where nature is imbued with poetry. Michaël Lachance , Canadian art critic and essayist. 2015 A photographer and artist torn between two strong currents in photography, Brigitte Thériault identifies with both a neo-pictorialist, artistic approach to photography and creative photography. Without opposing the artistic, color-based approach to creative shots, the Canadian photographer does not limit her work to a discourse on photography. An impressionistic artist, she subjects her photographic eye to the film, cultivating raw instinct. A globetrotter, she strives to capture the beauty of a landscape, a fleeting moment seized on the sly. Her work is resolutely aesthetic; she approaches photography like painting. She paints with light, imbuing her images with a translucency that blurs reality, cloaking it in an illusory veil that transcends objectivity and lends the artist's work an aesthetic quality reminiscent of Gyula Halasz (Brassai). Yet, for Brigitte Thériault, photography conveys a dreamlike utopia, like a Portuguese saudade, a place of gentle and nostalgic happiness. This thirst for untamed freedom, this quest for the sublime and the ideal, so dear to romantic spirits, is revealed in her series "Vivia" and "Pastel," two series that contrast light and darkness, lost paradise and realism, languor and joy, solitude and family. Moreover, the sublimated nature, these vast desert spaces, these winter clouds on the impression of summer, these added blurs to enhance or distort reality, give us 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, 128 pages. 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 success. successstory.com. http://successstory.com/inspiration/the-importance-of-finding-your-gift-to achieve-success Photo-travel narrative . His photo-stories are published throughout the province of Quebec. 2016 - Senegal, Africa. Nomade magazine https://nomademagazine.com/2016/05/6083/ 2013- Morocco , Inch’allah. sofadeco magazine, vol 8 no 1. 2012- La Barbade , Like a jewel. Sofadeco magazine, vol 6 no 5. 2012- Hawaii with family, Aloha! Le Soleil and La Presse. 2010 - Guadeloupe , Dreaming of Guadeloupe. Sofadeco magazine. *summer 2014- interview about Hawaii Gendron family experience. Hawaii, a new life! Since 2013, I've been living a great adventure, leaving Quebec for the Hawaiian archipelago. I settled on the north side of Kauai with my husband and our three children, then aged 8, 10, and 13. The photo story of this epic journey is recounted on the blog of this website. I'm taking this break from business to focus more on my fine art photography and creating "photo-designs." Using my photos of Hawaiian vegetation, and printed on various textiles, I create floral patterns, print them on beautiful fabrics, and then make bags, cushions, and more. BTBAG launched in the fall of 2017. https://www.etsy.com/fr/shop/BTBAG *Summer 2014- Star presenter Josey Arsenault of Quebec City station FM93 welcomes Brigitte to her show “Le monde de Josey” .- I'm telling 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, Louis XIV Blvd., Quebec City, Canada.ARTV. by Alex Beausoleil
http://blogue.artv.ca/2017/08/artiste-a-decouvrir-brigitte-theriault-photographe/ The Sun, by Michèle Laferrière. Beauty Focus between Quebec 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, Première Heure program. The exotic nature of Brigitte Thériault 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 on 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 - These Quebec artists who decorate our walls / home guide. February 27 by Marie-Ève Côté http://www.guidehabitation.ca/blogue/ces-artistes-de-quebec-qui-decorent-nos-murs/
2014- Josey Arsenault from Quebec City's FM93 station welcomes Brigitte to 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 Snowflakes ( “sold out/discontinued) 2013 - Spring sales! Art Gallery of Hamilton, Toronto. 5 small works exhibited and sold.2013 - Toronto Interior Design Show (IDS). Le Soleil , Two Quebec women stand out in 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 (Society of Artisan Photographers of Quebec)2012- Magazine La vie de château . Copper players , by Diane Laberge. Portrait of BT and the Unis Vert l'art (UVA ) project.
2011- Le Soleil. The great horizons of Brigitte Thériault, 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, “The devil is in the arts ” by Josianne Desloges. Portrait of the Ni vu ni cornu gallery at its opening in spring 2011.
2010 - Sofadeco Magazine, artist portrait.
http://www.sofadeco.com/artiste_details.php?artiste=786#.VnBIf2Txyko
2008 - The art magazine Parcours features a portrait of BT, “ Women in the visual arts ” by Jacques Bélanger.
2008 - Brigitte Thériault co-authored her first book, Papas , published by Éditions La Presse. Gilles Parent dedicated 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 - Le Soleil newspaper. At the perfect angle of the lens , by Dany Quine. Perspective Gallery, Quebec. From the series Architectural Fish, The Herring. Solo.