Catherine Tableau, a visual artist based in Gibsons, BC, grew up in France among artisans and labourers.
She studied at the Faculté de Lettres et Sciences Humaines of Nice, then took courses at the École des Beaux-Arts of Nice.
She has worked as an artistic director for Maisons des Jeunes et de la Culture for 15 years before immigrating to a remote island in Bristish Columbia, in 2001. While on Cortes Island, she explored materials and textures, starting her artistic practice from cook, to landscaper to chocolate-maker.
Relocated in Vancouver, she was an active member and resident of The Arts Factory hub.
Her work focuses on mixed techniques in paintings, drawings, sculptures and accumulations. Thoughout her career, she has participated in group or solo exhibitions, in public or private galleries, in France and in Canada. Her artwork is included in private and corporate collections in Europe and North America.

Catherine Tableau, a visual artist based in Gibsons, BC, grew up in France among artisans and labourers.
She studied at the Faculté de Lettres et Sciences Humaines of Nice, then took courses at the École des Beaux-Arts of Nice.
She has worked as an artistic director for Maisons des Jeunes et de la Culture for 15 years before immigrating to a remote island in Bristish Columbia, in 2001. While on Cortes Island, she explored materials and textures, starting her artistic practice from cook, to landscaper to chocolate-maker.
Relocated in Vancouver, she was an active member and resident of The Arts Factory hub.
Her work focuses on mixed techniques in paintings, drawings, sculptures and accumulations. Thoughout her career, she has participated in group or solo exhibitions, in public or private galleries, in France and in Canada. Her artwork is included in private and corporate collections in Europe and North America.

With visual arts more and more dominated by digital technologies, I privilege materials and tools associated with the world of construction in my artistic practice. Appropriating and repositioning these traditional methods bring to life this creative process that seduces me with its cyclical, slow, laborious sequence rooted in the material world. My work takes shape in paintings, drawings, sculptures and accumulations where plaster, monochrome and repetition dominate. I pour, break, cut, sequence, recompose and try to create cohesion.

I encourage imperfections, push the boundaries of the physical qualities of my raw materials until they break, the better to repair them. But a trace of the damage always remains, revealing an experience, a unique moment in the history of the object.

The materiality of plaster becomes a metaphor of the human condition: versatile, fragile, malleable and tactile, a channel for emotions, sensations and ideas.

In an often narrow space between artisanal craft and contemporary art, my practice, inspired by Land Art and minimalism, articulates the notion of dislocation, social violence, recomposition and impermanence both at the individual and collective level.

With visual arts more and more dominated by digital technologies, I privilege materials and tools associated with the world of construction in my artistic practice. Appropriating and repositioning these traditional methods bring to life this creative process that seduces me with its cyclical, slow, laborious sequence rooted in the material world. My work takes shape in paintings, drawings, sculptures and accumulations where plaster, monochrome and repetition dominate. I pour, break, cut, sequence, recompose and try to create cohesion.

I encourage imperfections, push the boundaries of the physical qualities of my raw materials until they break, the better to repair them. But a trace of the damage always remains, revealing an experience, a unique moment in the history of the object.

The materiality of plaster becomes a metaphor of the human condition: versatile, fragile, malleable and tactile, a channel for emotions, sensations and ideas.

In an often narrow space between artisanal craft and contemporary art, my practice, inspired by Land Art and minimalism, articulates the notion of dislocation, social violence, recomposition and impermanence both at the individual and collective level.