L'Atelier Larose MTL
GOLDEN VEINS (2024) Red stoneware, glaze, underglaze, 3 firings. Cold work. FLAT ROCK PARADE (2024) Red stoneware, flashing slips, natural ash glaze from wood firing. Comes with 12 1-inch accessory “stones” to arrange freely. REFUGE (red anorak) (2022) Red stoneware, underglaze, glaze, 3 firings. Cold work. First piece in the Erratics series. CONCENTRICS (2024) Red stoneware, glaze, 2 firings. Private collection. SPLIT LEVEL (2024) High fire buff stoneware, upcycled glass, flashing slip, natural ash glaze from wood firing. Cold work. MOSSY (2024) Red stoneware, glaze, underglaze, 3 firings. Cold work. Comes with two matching accessory boulders, to arrange freely.

Current projects / projets en cours

The Metallics

The Metallics, currently available at Poterie et Galerie Foster, is a growing collection of wall-mounted and freestanding artefacts that appear to have been spontaneously birthed from postindustrial decay.

Somewhere in a city, among quietly decomposing factories and alleyways littered with broken glass and graffiti, something has woken up and come alive. What are these artefacts being left in the rubble? What is their function? Are they messages, beacons, prayers, warnings, pranks? Who might decipher them?  

Inspired by a found piece of rusted cast iron machinery, The Metallics are a set of high-contrast sculptures that add a dash of magical realism to the tenets of postindustrial art. The viewer is invited to come up with their own interpretation. 

The Metallics were exhibited in the Gaetan-Beaudin gallery during the 2024 edition of the 1001 Pots expo. They were previously shown in a curated group show in July 2023 curated by Beatrice Shilton, and at a self-organized show with a fellow artist in April 2023.

Collection of ceramic artworks on plinths and on the wall.

Above: Display of Metallics in the Gaetan-Beaudin gallery, 35th edition of the 1001 Pots summer exhibit in Val-David, QC, summer 2024. 

The Erratics

In her Erratics project, Lysanne is currently exploring the evocative forms and surfaces of glacial erratics (boulders and rocks ferried by glaciers and scattered across the landscape at the end of the last ice age). The intention is not to perfectly replicate a mossy granite boulder, but rather to offer up a multi-layered interpretation of these wandering rocks and the contexts in which they are found.

This project is to be eventually presented as an installation that positions it in overlapping contexts: geological and geographical (the Canadian shield, ice ages); ecological (soil creation; role of cryptograms as ecosystem health indicators; plant identification); cultural (Western literature; Indigenous legend); athletic (the start of rock climbing in Canada); and allegorical (forced migrations of people and animals).

Lysanne received a Canadian Council for the Arts grant for a residency abroad for this project in 2022, and is being mentored for all of 2024 by artist and gallerist Sam Harvey (Harvey Preston Gallery, Aspen, Colorado) to further develop this body of work. 

Two photos of smaller Erratic sculptures in softer tones. These sets are meant to talk about how the boulders can be a metaphor for force human displacement.

Smaller Erratic sculptures in softer tones. Their networks of lines and dots, evoking maps, are meant to talk about how glacial erratics can also be a metaphor for forced human displacement and a search for a safe place to call home.

The ARCTICS

The Arctics series was begun during a week-long residency for which I was selected by 1001 Pots in Val-David, QC. These works aim celebrate the beauty and endless forms of the planet’s precious glaciers, floes and icebergs; and to bring awareness to Inuits’ and Laps’ right to be cold, and to the threatened northern fauna, flora, and ways of life. The series was conceived during a six-week residency in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2022, with South African ceramic artist John Bauer.

Solo exit show at the Montebello Design Centre, Cape Town, South Africa.

Above and below: early Arctic maquettes, solo exit show, Montebello Design Centre, Cape Town, South Africa (May 2022) (more photos and a video on Instagram.)

Collection of ceramic artworks on plinths and on the wall.


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