Amélie Desjardins

From tree, to wreck, to artwork... Desjardins highlights the fusion of sedentary life (the tree) and adventure (boats and bridges). Desjardins is a nomad...To find the materials she uses she is travelling the world by, train, motorbikes or sailboats with her husband and 2 kids since over 15 years.A sailing story from one of the Pacific Islands where Amelie has sailed and traveled for many years, well states the premise: "Every man is torn between two needs. The need of the Pirogue, that is to say of the journey of adventure, and the need of the Tree, that is to say of the rooting, of belonging to a community. Men are constantly wandering between these two needs, sometimes yielding to one, sometimes to the other until the day when they understand that it is with the Tree that the Pirogue is made.”The work emphasizes on the accumulation of scars, fossils, and memories through the passage of time and the omnipresence of nature. Her approach is based both on the recovery of materials and a lyrical vision of the passage of time. She is always seeking out lost treasures during her ocean crossings. Skimming beaches around the world in search of wrecks and stranded treasures, she builds her works from the wreckages of bridges and boats, ju...

2001 (University) College certificate in visual arts, UQAM, Montreal, Qc, Canada
2000 College diploma in visual arts, Collège St-Laurent, Montreal, Qc, Canada

2019 (upcoming may) Thompson Landry Gallery,Toronto
2018/ Galerie Blanche, Montreal
2016 12 Trees, Gardiner museum, Toronto
2014 A la dérive/Drifting, St-Dizier Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2014 Into the Bloo, Bloo lagoon Gallery, Bali, Indonesia
2013 Dojo, Eklund Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 Délégation Générale du Québec, London
2011 Fossil"s soul, Thompson Landry Gallery, Toronto
2010 The time allegory, Art center, Frelighsburg
2009 Murs et murmures/Waves and whispers, SAS gallery, Montreal
2008 Walls and whispers, Hotel W, Montreal
2007 Passage sur mer/Sea journey, SAS gallery, Montreal
2005 Passage, SAS gallery, Montreal


2018/ Galerie Blanche, Montreal
2017/ Permanent artist, Galerie Blanche, Montreal
2017/Permanent artist, the doorway gallery, Dublin
2014/2017 Permanent artist Envie d'art gallery, Paris, London
2010/2017 Permanent artist Thompson Landry Gallery, Toronto
2011/2017 Permanent artist, St-Dizier Gallery, Montreal
2013-2017 Permanent Artist Michel Bigue Gallery, Saint-Sauveur, Canada
2013-2016 Permanent artist, EKLUND Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 L’anti-sublime, Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont-Royal, Montréal, Canada
2009 Art Souterrain, Montreal High lights festival white night, S...