Nicole Levaque is an artist and arts educator based in Hamilton, ON working in sculpture and installation. She uses ceramics for its familiarity rooted in touch to understand and mirror the visual excess of our everyday and cope with chronic pain. Her work acts as an inventory to be deconstructed and rebuilt with a process embracing failure through the trial and errors of making and accumulation, finding beauty in unpredictable materiality and highlighting the traces of touch.

 

Levaque holds an MFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University (2019) and a BFA in Painting from Concordia University (2014). Her work has been exhibited and collected both locally and internationally and has been supported through grants from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. Levaque has worked as an adjunct professor of sculpture and currently teaches ceramic workshops and art classes through the Art Gallery of Burlington.