Artist Statement
Lisa Theriault primarily works in drawing, meticulously creating detailed interiors and landscapes. Her work is often devoid of humans, yet it reveals traces of their existence and illuminates narratives. In creating imaginary worlds that also draw from reality, she both documents and fictionalises the changing nature of our world. Theriault uses parallel perspective in her drawings, a method of representing three dimensional spaces that appear flattened and continuous. The resulting images show strange and impossible spaces that continue infinitely and become otherworldly.
Biography
Lisa Theriault is a visual artist and arts worker based in Brookfield, PEI. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Mount Allison University and has most notably presented artworks at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Galerie Sans Nom, Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen, and Artch Montréal. Her work has been supported by the Quebec Arts Council, PEI Artist Grants, and the Canada Council for the Arts and is in collections at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery and the PEI Art Bank. She has nearly a decade of experience in arts administration at galleries, centres, and other arts organisations. She is deeply invested in local arts communities and increased support for the arts, and she currently undertakes this work in her role as the Executive Director of the artist-run centre This Town Is Small.
