Brenda Dunn-Lardeau

 

Trained in life drawing and painting from a young age, Brenda Dunn-Lardeau gradually turned to sculpture. Her preferred material is clay, a malleable substance that brings us back to the essential. For her terracotta pieces, hand-painted or patinated, she studied with sculptors and ceramicists, including Yevkiné de Gréef, Maya Lightbody, Marie-Lyne Veilleux, Jean-Louis Emond, France Andrée Sevillano, Michel Viala, Sara Mills, and Violette Dionne.

 

She draws her inspiration either from the tragedy of contemporary events or, conversely, from the ironic situations of life. A constant theme in her works is that of human dignity throughout the ages, despite the vicissitudes of the world.

She has exhibited at the Town of Mount Royal Cultural Centre, the Dunham Art Centre, the TD Bank (Beaconsfield), the annual Nature and Creation exhibition at Domaine des Côtes d'Ardoise Vineyard (Dunham), and the McGill University Health Centre Gallery in Montreal. She also co-curated the exhibition "Resplendent Illuminations" on Books of Hours from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Quebec (Sept. 2018–Jan. 2019).