Biography
Sarah Bertrand-Hamel lives and works in Montreal. She holds a Master in Fine Arts from Concordia University (2014).
In 2017, she was the first prize winner of the Valcellina Award (Italy) and of the Paper in Particular annual exhibition (United States). Her work has been exhibited in Canada and internationally, recently in Japan where she also studied Japanese papermaking as part of two artist residencies. Her works are featured in public and private collections, including the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Canada) and the Museo national de la cerámica (Mexico).
Curious and attentive to the materials she uses, her research has brought her into making her own paper. Since each sheet is different, each batch has its specificity, and these particularities inspire the subsequent work.
Fascinated by impermanence and singularity, the artist creates images that she repeats and reinterprets, fragments and recomposes. She is interested in transitions and shifts between these images. She traces change, wants to make time visible.
2022-2023
FBRS 371 Paper:Surface and Object
FBRS 372 Paper Works
DRAW 200 Playing with Marks
2021-2022
FBRS 371 Paper: Surface and Object
2020-2021 Courses
FBRS 480 Advanced Fibres
FBRS 372 Paper Works
2019-2020 Courses
FBRS 480 Advanced Fibres
FBRS 385 In and On Paper
