Alice with her lithography stone, June 2026
Alice Hébert is the recipient of the François-Xavier Marange Grant 2026!
A graduating student in the Bachelor of Visual and Media Arts program at UQAM, Alice has participated in numerous exhibitions and collaborative projects. Her artistic practice explores territory through the collection of observations, images, and materials, with a particular focus on the ecological balance of the environment. Inspired by the languages of geography and geology, she uses printmaking techniques to transform traces and materials drawn from the landscape—rock dust, mineral fragments, and textures—in order to reveal the cycles of material transformation and the memory embedded within the land.
Residency Project
The project she wishes to develop at Atelier Circulaire builds on her ongoing research-creation project, Monticules: Accumulated, Displaced, Abandoned, which focuses on “false mountains” — mounds of rock, minerals, soil, and transformed materials generated through processes of extraction, accumulation, and displacement.
Through printmaking techniques such as screenprinting, lithography, and intaglio, she explores how materials collected in the field can be directly integrated into both traditional and digital printing processes, allowing their transformation to continue through the act of printing. Her experimentation includes the oxidation of intaglio plates, the production of inks made from rock dust, and lithographic drawing using greasy minerals.
This new phase of the project would also enable her to develop presentation devices made from materials gathered in the field, which could themselves become printing matrices and supports. The residency would provide her with the opportunity to deepen these experiments and bring together this body of research in a publication documenting the creative process.