Marie-Jose Gustave

Marie José Gustave has been creating paper works for about fifteen years. After creating with cardboard, her creations are now mainly made of paper thread.

Originally from Guadeloupe, born in France and living in Quebec for over 20 years, she creates expressive works whose subject is crossbreeding, migration and the search for identity.

From her training in clothing production, Marie-José Gustave retains a taste for form and volume. She uses the flexibility and rigidity of paper thread to create volumes and the meshes of knitting, crochet and braiding to play with shadows and light. This material illustrates the flexibility needed to adapt to a new society, the universal ancestral techniques she uses speak of transmission.

Marie-José Gustave is a professional member of the Quebec Council of Arts and Crafts.

A scholarship holder from the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts, her works are exhibited in Canada and internationally.