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marie josee leroux

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Mediums Used

Soapstone, Alabaster - fox hair- granite base, Edition:, Alabaster, Marble, Vermont Marble, Indian soapstone, Alabaster - granit base, Limestone, Italian alabaster, Italian Marble,

Lerou is a Canadian Stone sculptor, living in Montreal, Quebec. She is President of the Quebec Sculpture Council and Canada`s Director for the International Association of Monumental Sculpture Events (AIESM). She has public artworks in many cities in Canada and in China, Egypt, France, Cyprus, Costa-Rica.

Marie-Josée Leroux, aka Lerou, is a stone carver, based in Montreal.

Her artistic approach is oriented around the mystery and the unconscious, in an attempt to identify and capture the unspoken. Influenced by the work of Carl Jung and his definition of the unconscious and the archetypes, she is guided by the underlying forces coming from the unconscious.
She attempts to capture the archetypal images at work behind our actions and social movements. She listens to buried symbols from different cultures and civilisations and her researches result in the birth of symbolic figures carved in stone.

For Jung, to recognize the existence and influence of the collective unconscious is to recognize that “we are not of today, nor yesterday, we are of a great age”.
Similarly, when she addresses the stone, she begins an adventure, a journey. The characters that emerge represent mythical beings and timeless, archetypal forces from our human history.

Technically, she is attached to the representation of the human body, not tinged with realism, but through the round, simple and stylized shapes, lines, suggestions, reflecting mainly the soul, the expression, the sensuality, the emotion.

Sculptures by marie josee leroux

Omvati (Carved Stone Seated Squatting Woman sculpture)

£1,667

The Offering (Small Sitting Man And Bowl statue)

£3,500

The Waterkeeper

Joy (Carved Standing Woman Female sculpture)

£3,333

Ashtak (Carved Kneeling American Indian statue)

£6,667

The Priestess (Carved Sitting Stylised woman Pondering Thinking statue)

£8,334

The Alchemist (Carved Soap Stone Small Man statue)

£8,000

Sechat (Primitive Little Abstract Kneeling Nude Girl Carving statue)

£5,834

Fukushima (Golden Alabaster Carved stone Child Head Bust statue)

£5,834

Afrodita (Full Bodied Stylised Nude Woman Goddess statue)

£41,667

Aylya (Carved stone Dancer Small Indoor Stylised statuette statue)

£6,167

The Pearl (Little Carved marble Nude Seated Girl statuettes figurine)

£6,334

The Water Guardian (Massive Monumental Primitive Woman Carved stone)

£196,667

Credentials

Biography

Experience in Visual Arts
Sculptor 2007 to today Lerou, sculptor, Montreal (Quebec) H4K 1C6
Coordinator 1986 to 1988 Paul Labelle Photographe inc., Montreal (Quebec) H3C 1K8
Engraver 1985-1986 Western Trophies, Vancouver, BC
Engraver 1983-1984 Martin Pontbriand Graveur, Sillery, QC
Engraver 1981-82 Publicité Latulippe Ste-Foy, QC
Silk Paintor Jan.-June 1980 Sylvie Bernadette L. Enr, St-Marc sur Richelieu QC
Fine arts Coordinator summers 1978, 79 Camp St-François St-François, Ile D`Orleans, QC

Other
Vice-president of the Board, Quebec Council of Sculpture
Director, Canada, AIESM (aiesm.com)
Member of RAAV (raav.org)
Member of ISC (sculpture.org)
Chief of the Canadian delegation - SNBA Salon 2011 - Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Jury member, Art Competition, Railway Museum, St-Constant

Public Works

City of Boisbriand, QC, Canada (2 artworks)
City of St-Georges-de-Beauce, Canada
City of Lac-Mégantic,QC, Canada (2 artworks)
City of Duhamel, Canada
City of St-Jacques-de Montcalm, QC Canada
City of Oka, QC Canada
City of Aya Napa, Cyprus
City of Madinaty, New Cairo, Egypt
City of Port d`Envaux, France
City of Jimo, Shandong, China
City of Tonghe, Heiliongjian, China
City of Puntarenas, Costa Rica

Public Acquisitions
City of Boisbriand, QC, Canada (2 artworks) City of St-Georges-de-Beauce, Canada City of Lac-Mégantic,QC, Canada (2 artworks) City of Duhamel, Canada City of St-Jacques-de Montcalm, QC Canada City of Oka, QC Canada City of Aya Napa, Cyprus City of Madinaty, New Cairo, Egypt City of Port d`Envaux, France City of Jimo, Shandong, China City of Tonghe, Heiliongjian, China City of Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Symposiums
 Specially Invited Artist, 1st Fuqing International Exhibition, Fuqing, China, October 2018  Madinaty International Sculpture Symposium, Cairo, Egypt, 1st November-1st December 2017  Tonghe International Sculpture Symposium, Tonghe, 9th-24th September 2017  Monumental Sculpture Symposium URBANITÉ, City of Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada, 3rd -17 th August 2017  Monumental Sculpture Symposium Les Lapidiales, Charente-Maritime, France,1st June- 20th July 2016  Monumental Sculpture Symposium, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 20th April- May 8th 2016  Monumental Sculpture Symposium Marcheur d’Étoiles, Lac-Mégantic, 12th-26th Sept. 2015  Duhamel Art Symposium In Situ, Duhamel, QC, 29th August-6th September 2015  St-Jacques Monumental Sculpture Symposium, St-Jacques-de-Montcalm, 31st July- 14th August 2015  Beauce-Art., Monumental Sculpture Symposium, St-Georges-de-Beauce, 3rd-23rd June 2015  1st Zhishang Sculpture Symposium, Jimo, 20th-29th April 2015  Monumental Sculpture Symposium Marcheur d’Étoiles, 14th-28th Sept. 2014  Festival du Bois Flotté, Ste-Anne des Monts, 6th - 10th August 2014  Costa Rica International Sculpture on Marble Symposium, 17th Sept-6th Oct 2013  Symposium of sculpture, 11 th -26 th August 2012

Categories

This artists work is found in the following categories on site:
Carved Abstract Contemporary Modern sculpture statue carving Carved Stone, Marble, Alabaster, Soap Stone Granite Lime stone Sculpture Females Women Girls Ladies Sculptures Statues statuettes figurines Figurative Abstract Modern or Contemporary Sculptures Statues statuary statuettes figurines Human Figurative Sculptures Meditation sculpture/statues/statuettes/figurines Small/Little Figurative sculpture/statuette/ statuary/ornament/figurine Triumph of Spirit over Adversity sculptures statues statuettes Public Art Sculpture Carved or Carving sculpture Happiness/Joy/Exuberance/Wild Pleasure sculpture Mythical Legendry Folk Lore Sculptures Spiritual sculpture Contemplative, Restful, Thougtful Sculptures Nudes, Female Sculptures Tabletop Desktop Small Indoor Statuettes Figurines Sculptures Busts and Heads Sculptures Children Child Babies Infants Toddlers Kids sculptures statues statuettes figurines Commemoratives and Memorials Sculptures Portrait sculptures/Commission or Bespoke or Customised sculptures Stylised Heads/Busts Sculptures Earth Mother Gaia sculpture statue statuettes figurines Figurative Public Art Sculptures Gods or Goddess, or Deity Sculptures Pregnant and post Pregnant Women or Females Sculptures Allegorical /Parable Sculpture

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This artists work is found in the following tags on site:
Abstract American Indian statues Carved American Indian statue Kneeling Man Sculpture Marble figure Sculpture Marble Native American statues Meditative Stone Sculpture Native American Man Sculptures Native Man Sculpture Archetype Woman of Strength sculpture Calm Woman statuette Carved Marble sitting Woman statuettes Carved Meditating Woman statuette carved Sitting Woman sculptures Contemporary Sitting Woman sculptures Seated Female statue Seated Woman Marble Carving Carved soap Stone Man statue Carved Stone stylized Man statuary Contemporary Alchemist Carved statuette Contemporary Figurative Man sculptures Indoor Carved Man sculpture Stone Ancient Wise man Carvings Stone Man statuettes stylized Alchemist statues Carved Alabaster Contemporary woman statuettes Carved Stone Little Nude sculpture Carved stylised Goddess statuette Little Carved Stone statuette Little Egyptian Goddess statues small Contemporary Primitive Goddess statues small Stone Goddess carving Alabaster Child`s bust sculpture Alabaster Child`s Head statue Carved Child Head sculpture Carved Stone Bust statue Carved Stone Child bust sculpture Child Portrait bust statue Child Portrait Head sculpture Child`s head statues Head Carving sculpture Big Figurative Nude Goddess statue Big Nude Pregnant Woman carving Carved Stone Nude sculptures Carved Stone Nude Woman statue Monumental Nude Woman sculpture Nude Big Woman statue Pregnant Nude Woman statues Symbolic Well proportioned Nude sculpture Abstract Dancing Woman statue Abstract Figurative stone sculptures Carved Contemporary Goddess statuette Carved Dream Art Little Alabaster Goddess Carving Little Indoor Female statuette Little Stone Swirling statuette small stylised Goddess statuette Carved Nude Girl Seated statuette Carved Thoughtful Woman statuette Little Marble Carving statuette Seated Girl & Pearl statues Seated Marble Woman Seated Woman Contemplating statue small Sitting Girl statues Woman Gently Sitting Contemplating statue