“The recent accessibility of new technologies for artists has certainly changed the course of the history of textile art, its perspectives on textile creation and my own work. A new form was born and the weaver artist had to adapt to these new ideas and new professional possibilities. They are huge and multidisciplinary. This new situation has, without a doubt, fueled my passion for textiles.”
Louise Lemieux Bérubé, a prominent pioneer in the innovative use of Jacquard techniques for weaving, was born in Montreal, Quebec. Bérubé holds a degree in Art History from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She also studied Jacquard design at the Rhode Island School of Design, and computerized weaving with Olivier Masson and François Roussel in France in the late eighties and early nineties.
Bérubé has always been fascinated by the work of artists, dancers, writers, photographers, film and multimedia artists, etc., and she has been able to incorporate their work into the imagery of her own work. Bérubé explores a multifaceted vision of life, men and women and nature using computer-assisted techniques in which she has been involved. This way of creating allows her to use a photograph, manipulate it to produce the desired effect, and then transform it into a woven or embroidered textile. Bérubé’s work has been the subject of a video on Artspots on Radio-Canada television and articles in numerous publications. A video about his career was produced by Radhanat Gagnon in 2012.
Louise Lemieux Bérubé has exhibited her work in Canada and the United States as well as in Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Argentina, China and Spain. Bérubé’s work is represented in public collections, including the Canadian Embassy in London, England; Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin, Place des Arts de Montréal, Loto-Québec; Société de Développement des Entreprises culturelles du Québec, Ville de Montréal, and Temple Manuel Beth Shalom, Westmount, QC, as well as in numerous private collections.
Lemieux Bérubé is the co-founder of the Centre des textiles contemporains de Montréal (Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles), which she directed until 2012, and where she taught students from all over the world. She works regularly with universities and schools in Montreal and gives workshops and conferences in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Japan, Taiwan and the United States.
She is also the author of the textbook Le Tissage créateur (1998), and the co-author with Carole Greene of her biography Unwinding the Threads(2012).
Lemieux Bérubé was president of the Conseil des métiers d’art du Québec from 1990 to 2000. From 1995 to 2009, she was a member of the Board of Directors of the Socitété de Développement des Entreprises culturelles du Québec, as well as of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec from 2009 to 2013. She has received the medal of the Ordre national du Québec, as well as that of the Ordre du Conseil des arts et des Lettres du Québec. She is also the recipient of the Saydie Bronfman Award from the Governor General of Canada.
Lemieux Bérubé lives and has his studio in Montreal, Quebec. January 2025.
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