Gaëlle Legrand works across sculpture, photography, and installation. Guided by careful inquiry into the ontology of matter, and moving between analogue and digital processes, she explores how shapes and lines can sculpt the space they inhabit. Legrand works with wood, flowers, metal, and stone, to create her large, minimal sculptures. The work is grounded in the embodied knowledge of her ancestors (woodworkers and farmers from northern France), and emerges out of a sustained attention to matter, land, and lived experience. Her practice is closely tied to the places it is made, and relies on observation and contemplation. Drawing inspiration from the forms and structures of plant-life, her work considers the entanglements that weave our world.
Gaëlle Legrand is an artist originally from France who lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang (Montreal). She recently completed her BFA in sculpture at Concordia University where she was named class valedictorian. She was also a visiting researcher at the Post Image Cluster, a photographic research center at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology. Her work has been featured in several group exhibitions, including the launch exhibition of the Art Volt Collection at the FOFA Gallery and Fresh Paint and New Construction at Art Mûr. In 2025, she participated in the Summer Institute: Magic Creek program at the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg, MB. In the fall of 2026, Gaëlle will participate in Art Toronto as well as the group exhibition New Horizons IV at the Grantham Foundation. Several of her works have recently been acquired by private collections, including that of the Fédération des caisses Desjardins du Québec.
