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Emma Ducharme

Artist member since 2020
Toronto, Ontario

Emma Ducharme is an emerging Tkaronto-based multidisciplinary artist exploring futurism in abstraction. Working from intuitive plein-air graphite sketches to generate dimensional, geometric wall sculptures, Ducharme's process heavy work implores the vitality of awareness; stressing the importance of rest and self-reflection in the dismantling of capitalist, colonial systems that value robotic productivity over individual peace. Reflecting on the cruciality of radically joyful, often commercially unproductive art-making in an increasingly commodified world, the work calls into question our relationship with items; it considers the spiritual and personal implications of art-making, while challenging our corporate commodified relationship to objects. Comfort and security (financial or other) are often seen as the basis for success. But what is the true definition of success, outside of these corporatized monetary illusions so few of us ever experience?

Holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Ontario College of Art & Design University (2021), Ducharme’s work considers the importance of play in art, design, fashion, food; life. Her works challenge the notion that good work must be serious work, and stresses the necessity for self-actualized, joyful work (in conjunction with all the serious stuff), in order to forge a brighter future.

Growing up in Sudbury (b. 1999) and spending her early years in rural northern Ontario, Ducharme’s practice is influenced in colour and form by an appreciation of the natural landscape; centering meaningful making and prioritizing an awareness of our environment’s impact on us, and, in turn, our impact on it.


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Favourite medium

oil paint/wood sculpture (but I have a soft spot for graphite doodles)

Describe your home in 3 words

eclectic, cozy, PLANTS!

Why is it important for people to have art in their home or life?

so much of our world today is filtered and refined and mass produced; for me, the uniqueness that art affords a space is a crucial remedy to this sterile manufactured result of our commodified existence.

Upcoming Exhibitions
2023-01-10

Art Gallery of Sudbury
Offsite Exhibition

2023-04-13

The Artist Project
Untapped

Select Past Exhibitions
2023

Cedar Ridge Creative Centre, Toronto
Arbitrary Dreams of Spiritual Remediation

2022

Red Head Gallery, Toronto
Get Noticed

2022

Toronto
Queen West Art Crawl

2022

Toronto
Toronto Outdoor Art Fair

2022

Melt Studio + Gallery, Picton
Renewal

2022

Gallery 1313, Toronto
Portrait Art Exhibit

2021

Online
GradEx 106

2016

Art Gallery of Sudbury
Émergence

Accolades
2022

Partial Gallery
OCAD U Showcase

Press
2022

CBC Radio-Canada
Y a pas deux matins pareils

2022

CBC Radio-Canada
Le matin du nord

Education
2021

OCAD U
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drawing and Painting

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