The Artist
Rosalie Beaucage grew up in the Eastern Townships in close contact with nature. She has always felt compelled by words and images and has been committed to bringing them together for as long as she can remember. After completing a Bachelor's degree in Literary Studies at Université Laval, she worked for several years in the agricultural field, which reinforced the importance of the living world for her and enabled her to unite it with the visual and literary arts.
Today, the artist lives and works in Quebec City, where she exhibited comic strips at the 2023 edition of Québec en toutes lettres. She is presenting work for the 2024/2025 Façade fauve program at the creative incubator La Charpente des fauves. Her work has appeared in a number of literary publications, as well as in several self-published zines. Approach
The notions of transmission and retelling are central to Rosalie Beaucage's approach. Creation allows her to leave traces of the people she meets and the acts she observes. It's a work of recalling that can both connect people and reflect on what connects them. Her practice mainly involves drawing and printmaking, and more recently, comics. She is interested in living heritage. Residency Project
During her time at the Rozynski Art Centre, the author conducted research for a graphic novel project on the potter's trade and the contribution of her father, ceramicist Marcel Beaucage, to the Quebec ceramics scene.
Having launched his career in the early 1960s, Marcel Beaucage has been intimately involved with ceramics for over fifty years. He was of those who helped make pottery come alive in Quebec (notably by helping to create the Centre de céramique Bonsecours, one of only two studio-schools in the province to offer the DEC en technique de métiers d'art - option céramique). His career has taken him to France and Japan, where the ceramic tradition goes back thousands of years, to deepen his understanding of the subject.
Adopting a documentary-style approach, Rosalie Beaucage rearranges interviews previously conducted with her father, sorts through archives, continues her readings, and proceeds to prune the material so that the essence of the story emerges, from which she can draw a clear narrative structure. This project, while an incursion into the world of pottery to make it accessible to readers, is also a reflection on filiation and, more broadly, on our relationship with traditional crafts.
The Rozynski Art Centre is the very right place for this plunge into the world of ceramics.
A warm thank you to Première Ovation Arts littéraires for rendering this residency possible.