TREMBLAY, Suzanne (1955-2001)

After completing ceramics training in France (1972), Suzanne Tremblay earned a BA in visual arts education, a teaching certificate and an MFA. She created a number of architecturally integrated works, including mural sculptures for the Alma library (1992) and pieces at the Centre de formation professionnelle en Foresterie (1994) and the Foyer culturel de Saint-Honoré (1992). In Chicoutimi, she founded Le pot de terre, a studio and boutique that she managed for over a decade. Tremblay’s clay sculptures comprise architectural forms: towers, turrets, chimneys and rocky crags whose imposing silhouettes defy the fragility of their medium. She also used natural pieces of wood in stacks, collages and masonry, adding clay and colouring to convey the struggle of plant species for survival.