As part of the CUEILLIR project, curated by Véronique Leblanc, Marie-Line Leblanc, and Laurène Janowsky, the illustrator Hélène Beaulieu drew some sixty plants found on the Magdalen Islands with the aim of creating a harvest calendar. The drawings were executed in black ink and watercolours. The artist Gabrielle Desrosiers was commissioned to design the graphics for the printed object. The two creators will be on site at the Centre SAGAMIE to explore the manifold possibilities of printing and to bring the fruit of their labour to fruition in a micro-edition.

Hélène Beaulieu

Hélène Beaulieu was born in 1980 in Colombier, Haute-Côte-Nord. She holds an interdisciplinary bachelor's degree in fine arts from the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi. After living in Saguenay for more than 20 years, she moved to the Magdalen Islands, specifically to Île d'Entrée. Hélène is an unclassifiable multidisciplinary artist. Her artistic practice is rooted in everyday, trivial gestures and an observational approach. She mainly focuses on drawing with black fine-tip markers and illusionistic art. Hélène is interested in the repulsive, the obscene, and the ephemeral. Her ongoing obsessions are the material accumulation of memory instances and the collection of micro-objects of all kinds.

Gabrielle Desrosiers

Gabrielle Desrosiers was born in Quebec City in 1986, and her career has taken her to various regions of the province. She currently lives in the Magdalen Islands in the Maritimes. A visual artist, performer, and graphic designer, Gabrielle holds a BFA degree from Concordia University in Montreal (2018) and a diploma in graphic design from the Cégep de Trois-Rivières (2022). Her artistic practice ranges from action art to installation, bringing together different mediums such as sculpture, collage, photography, and found objects. Her work, while colourful and tinged with humour, obliquely examines the history of our civilizations.