Amélie Proulx
Musée Gardiner ,Toronto,Gardiner Museum
Amélie Proulx completed her MFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in 2010. She has received numerous awards, including the inaugural Starfish Properties Student Award and an Honourable Mention from the 2010 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture competition, organized by the International Sculpture Center in New Jersey. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows across Canada, as well as in the United States, Australia and France. She has received funding from, among other sources, the Canada Council for the Arts, le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Province of Nova Scotia. She currently lives and works in Québec City where, in 2012, she co-founded a collective studio space for ceramicists, Les Ateliers du Trois Cinquième. She also teaches Ceramics and Visual Arts at the Maison des métiers d’arts de Québec and Cégep Sainte-Foy