Medium :` Bronze

Marie-Claude Demers was born in Drummondville in 1970. She currently resides in Inverness.

Demers studied and earned her Bachelors degree in psychology from the University of Québec in Trois-Rivières. Furthermore, in 2002 she trained in a bronze foundry in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Marie-Claude Demers sculptural work is inspired by children’s stories. They depict people, animals and playful fantasies. Her first pieces were created in her studio in Inverness, a small village in central Québec. Demers art practice also focuses around drawing and painting, these mediums provide the basis for her sculptural works. She begins her sculptures by working with clay. Demers creates a wax moulds from the clay, using the mould she produces the final bronze piece. Marie-Claude Demers work is detail-oriented and time-consuming, as a dedicated artist she sees the realization of her work from start to finish.

Demers has exhibited her works on numerous occasions in Canada, the United States, Spain and Ecuador.

Awards and Prizes :
2009 Sculptors Prize, Domaine St-Bernard, Mont-Tremblant
2007 2nd Prize at the Arts Convention, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu
2006 Prize in the Transcontinental Media in the visual Arts, GalArt
2003 Juries Prizes at the Painters Symposium in St-Julie
2002 The L’OQAJ Scholarship
2000 3rd Prize at the St-Basile-le-Grand Symposium
2000 Award of Excellence at the Granby Symposium
1998 Canadian Arts Counsel Scholarship

Private Collections :

City of Thedford Mines; ABF (Armatures Bois-Frances Inc); SGF (Stratégies Financières Globales); Del Nino Museum, Guadalajara, Mexico; Pharmacies Swarm, Saint-Malo Museum, France; Réseau the help springboard, Drummondville; Lina Cyr Foundation, Montréal; Canimex; Golden Fruit; McDonald (Québec).

Media Coverage :

Art magazine, 2001 Summer Edition, p.66-68