George Blanchette

A native of Dieppe, New Brunswick, George Blanchette works specializes in engraving and drawing. Utilizing a rich palette of colours, George’s work incorporates especially the human body, animals and plant life in order to create visual settings. These figurative images do not aim to depict precise narrative stories, but rather to create a form of visual poetry. His works are made up of a collection of symbols that are systematically deconstructed, refined and remodelled in order to find their own purpose and being.

George is the instigator of major exhibitions such as Y’a pas de vache sacrée icitte and All Dressed/Il faut changer les draps. In 2003, he won the prix Claude Roussel during the Festival des arts visuels en Atlantique. He teaches drawing at the University of Moncton since 2003. George resides in Moncton and shares a workshop in the Aberdeen Cultural Center with fellow artist, Yvon Gallant.

Attention : Yvon Gallant ou George Blanchette

Centre culturel Aberdeen
140, rue Botsford,
suite 34 
Moncton (NB)
E1C 4X5

Yvon Gallant

Yvon Gallant was born in Moncton on July 3, 1950, where he continues to reside to this day. He is part of the first generation of artists who received their training at the University of Moncton. His work is tinged with the reality of everyday life, and speaks of the people around him and those who he encounters on a regular basis. Yvon Gallant received the Miller Brittain Award in 1992 and has over 80 exhibitions to his credit. The group exhibitions in which he has participated in 2002 include Peintres des villes francophones in Cambrai, France, Days and Nights in Malta, in the Musée National de Malte in Paris and Capitale des arts visuels francophones, also in Paris, France.

Attention : Yvon Gallant ou George Blanchette

Centre culturel Aberdeen
140, rue Botsford, suite 34
Moncton (NB)
E1C 4X5

Telephone: (506) 855-5773

E-mail: brush@nbnet.nb.ca
Website: www.umoncton.ca/gaum/hp_luc96.html