BRIGITTE POTTER-MAEL (she/her/hers)
I was born in the south of Germany in 1943 and immigrated to Canada in 1977. Visual art, with skills in drawing, papermaking, printmaking and installation art, is my practice. My themes focus mostly on nature and on language.
My artistic journey began at age 33, after settling in Montreal in 1977. Courses in the visual arts led to academic studies at Concordia University, which I completed with a BFA in 1983. Five years of explorations, which also included performative-art, offered wide windows of possibilities, but creating works on paper remained closest to my practice throughout. Portability, affordability of materials, the size of my worktable and studio space, have always played a large part in the choices I was able to make.
In 1989/90, during a six months residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts, I visited Vancouver and Victoria. Instantly enchanted by the lush and diverse landscapes that British Columbia is known for, I left Montreal in November 1990 and moved to Victoria. Then, in 1995, to be closer to a larger artistic community and printmaking facilities, I moved to Vancouver. I have lived and worked here since then while also keeping close ties with Europe through artist-residencies and exhibitions in Germany, Italy, France and Denmark.
Since 1984 much of my work has been shown in solo- and group-exhibitions in Canada and abroad. I have been a recipient of various grants and stipends from Canada Council for the Arts Ottawa, Ministry of cultural Affairs Quebec, Banff Centre for the Arts, Goethe Institute Vancouver, the Kulturamt Dresden, Rosa Luxemburg Institute, Berlin, Pinacoteca Vitulano, Italy, and Altos de Chavon Artist Colony, Dominican Republic.
Affiliations to date:
Since 1990, member of www.malaspinaprintmakers.com
Since 2000, member of www.gedok-brandenburg.de
Since 2000, board member of www.companyerasgadance.ca
Since 2021, board member of www.radixtheatre.org
I respectfully acknowledge the traditional and unceded territories of the Local First Nations, the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, on whose beautiful lands in the Lower Mainland I am able to live and work since 1995.
I was born in the south of Germany in 1943 and immigrated to Canada in 1977. Visual art, with skills in drawing, papermaking, printmaking and installation art, is my practice. My themes focus mostly on nature and on language.
My artistic journey began at age 33, after settling in Montreal in 1977. Courses in the visual arts led to academic studies at Concordia University, which I completed with a BFA in 1983. Five years of explorations, which also included performative-art, offered wide windows of possibilities, but creating works on paper remained closest to my practice throughout. Portability, affordability of materials, the size of my worktable and studio space, have always played a large part in the choices I was able to make.
In 1989/90, during a six months residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts, I visited Vancouver and Victoria. Instantly enchanted by the lush and diverse landscapes that British Columbia is known for, I left Montreal in November 1990 and moved to Victoria. Then, in 1995, to be closer to a larger artistic community and printmaking facilities, I moved to Vancouver. I have lived and worked here since then while also keeping close ties with Europe through artist-residencies and exhibitions in Germany, Italy, France and Denmark.
Since 1984 much of my work has been shown in solo- and group-exhibitions in Canada and abroad. I have been a recipient of various grants and stipends from Canada Council for the Arts Ottawa, Ministry of cultural Affairs Quebec, Banff Centre for the Arts, Goethe Institute Vancouver, the Kulturamt Dresden, Rosa Luxemburg Institute, Berlin, Pinacoteca Vitulano, Italy, and Altos de Chavon Artist Colony, Dominican Republic.
Affiliations to date:
Since 1990, member of www.malaspinaprintmakers.com
Since 2000, member of www.gedok-brandenburg.de
Since 2000, board member of www.companyerasgadance.ca
Since 2021, board member of www.radixtheatre.org
I respectfully acknowledge the traditional and unceded territories of the Local First Nations, the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, on whose beautiful lands in the Lower Mainland I am able to live and work since 1995.