Saskatchewan Artist Sells Work Worldwide

We chatted with Monique Martin about her work and her use of our Travel Grants over the years ! Monique is an accomplished artist selling her works all over the world.

Here’s what she had to say:

“I’m an artist, I’m from Saskatoon and this installation is called Breathturn. I travel a lot with my work and I’m able to get back to my studio and just silk screen layer after layer and feel connected again to my practice. I also created the floor cloth that goes with this. It’s 120 square meters of printmaking, but it has all these details in it, all small things, and it’s I want people to have that moment underneath my butterflies and on the floor cloth where they’re kind of suspended. They put their phone away from texting and all that stuff and they investigate and they look closely and they feel and they stop and they breathe and people lay on it, people dance on it and it’s just been special for a lot of people.

All of my grants with Creative Sask have been for travel. So I had one, I went to Seoul once before with them years ago with small nests that were three-dimensional and that was the first time I showed with the gallery that now sells my work all the time. And they just recently had my work in Australia at an art fair and sold some and I was there just last week and had an opening of brand new work there, which is very exciting, brand new work that I actually created in Vancouver, Montreal and Paris. And Creative Sask allowed me to go to the exhibition in Montreal and help with some of the funding.

And then on to Korea, So amazing. And I sold work in Korea. I’m thankful for Creative Saskatchewan, very thankful.”

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