One of the 5 winners of the David Suzuki Foundation Rewilding Art Prize 2026


Nicole McDonald-Fournier, fondatrice et directrice artistique de InTerreArt est parmi les cinq lauréat·es du prix national Retour à la nature de la Fondation David Suzuki 

Founder and Artistic Director of InTerreArt , is one of the 5 winners of the David Suzuki Foundation Rewilding Art Prize 2026 ! 

In english only click link here 

traduction français cliquez ici  

To the left photo is of Nicole McDonald-Fournier in her backyard, site of InTerreArt, in the Saint-Laurent borough of Montréal - dans l'arrondissement Saint-Laurent de Montréal. prior was the City of Saint-Laurent, Ville Saint-Laurent Photo credit Valérian Mazataud  

To the right / à droite, artwork/ oeuvre  Paysage EmballeToi!, Fonderie Darling 2024 ,
credit photo Nicole McDonald-Fournier 

 

Voir les liens ci-bas pour les article de presse et publication (en anglais seulement)
See links below for Press and magazine article

Globe and Mail 

Rewilding Magazine  

 


Publications - revue de presse - revue d'art - Art Magazines 2012-2024

 

Publication - Science direct

Nature-Based Solutions

Volume 5, June 2024, 100139
 

Artists invoke urban food security: Nature-based solutions when everything is imaginable
2024

Author : Linda Weintraub
 

Revue de presse - Le Devoir - 2024 

Jérôme Delgado

Auteur / Collaborateur

Publié le 9 nov. 2024 Critique

    •    Arts visuels

Photo: Guy L'Heureux Nicole McDonald-Fournier, «Paysage Emballe-toi!» est une des oeuvres présentées dans le cadre de l'exposition «Déliquescence» à la Fonderie Darling.

 
D’envergure internationale — cinq des artistes sont de Montréal, les autres de France, de Belgique ou des États-Unis —, Déliquescence est surtout marquée par son étendue dans le temps. Il y a toutes ces oeuvres dont le processus n’est jamais terminé. Puis, la commissaire fait un clin d’oeil à l’histoire, à son histoire, notamment en incluant des artistes qui avaient déjà exposé à la Fonderie Darling.

Nicole McDonald Fournier, artiste écoresponsable par excellence, est de celles-là. Et son installation Paysage emballe-toi !, placée jadis pendant des années à l’extérieur du bâtiment, est un programme de… mille ans (2012-3012). Sa démesure temporelle est une réponse à la surconsommation. L’oeuvre ancrée dans la bioremédiation vise à entraver la pollution de vêtements usagés en les intégrant à un écosystème de plantes et de micro-organismes.


Publications - revue de presse, revue d'art - Art Magazines - 2021

 Vie des Arts - 2021

Le millénaire à venir entre concept et matérialité
#art public #installation

By Christian Roy
6 Oct. 2021 - 5 mins read


Publications - revue de presse, revue d'art - Art Magazines - 2012, 2018, 2021, 2022

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Publication - 7 papers mention on Academia
“Nicole McDonald-Fournier (Nicole Fournier)”.

... both languages. Biographical notes on au thors. Circa ISO bibl. ref. ::1 ID 844 Perfonnance Chics. Fournier, Nicole; Spencer, 845 Petit dictionnaire des idées reçues sur la folie et autres cousidérations. Leclerc, S...
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  • spencer, karen elaine
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...hagnon] NOTES 1. C’est en Sardaigne, une île italienne, que les cinq membres du groupe (Vida Simon, Nicole Fournier, Marie-Andrée Rho, Taliesin McEnany et moi-même) résident depuis deux semaines. Nous y avons vu un ...
This essay was commissioned in early 2011, by the League of Resonance – a Melbourne artist group comprising Jason Maling, Jess Olivieri and Sarah Rodigari. In this piece, I try to tease out an anatomy of sorts for their particular brand of socially engaged art practice. Much of the underlying information comes from an interview I did with the artists in early 2011. Read the paper here: http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/learning-from-experience-in-league-with-the-city-of-melbourne/ See the diagram here: https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3227/5770796674_6b9a440cc7_o.jpg
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...Nicole Fournier t his new set of “ socially engaged” aest het ic processes m ight suggest a...
The first Adaptive Actions publication, part of an upcoming series, was edited by Jean-François Prost and produced with several collaborators and SPACE Art Centre. This 72-page publication includes two sections: one on the general theme of Adaptive Actions with over 25 micro-documented actions, and a second section on the specific London Adaptive Actions programming: the Olympic perimeter actions, walks and organized suppers. Includes texts by Judith Laister, Pascal Nicolas-Le Strat, Frank Nobert and Jean-François Prost. With and by: Julie Boivin, Andrea Cavagnaro, Tagny Duff, Martin Dufrasne, Hillary Powell & Dan Edelstyn, Jean-Maxime Dufresne, Nicole Fournier, Dominic Gagnon, Tyree Guyton, Sophie Handler, Hannah Jickling and Valerie Salez, Virginie Laganière, Marie & Jean, Frank Nobert, Optimistic Productions, Sarah Smizz, Animal Trust, Ben Scott, Robert Prost, Martin Wilson, Gesche Wuerfel.
...AA52 Uninvited Guests AA 113 Actor / Created by: Nicole Fournier; Location: Edmonton p.68 p.69 Actor: Maxpro...
To draw attention to a production method of image and sound, a number of viewpoints are proposed in this paper to do with cinematic traditions. This brings forth a privilege of contemplating images, within the sounds of electroacoustic music, images of a film, and language-based images in poetry. Engaging with the practice of recording the natural environment, traces of sound, image, and language may point to environments of distance.
...karen elaine spencer, Installation, performance, ecovention LW: Eco art critics and historians seem capable of Photo: Nicole Fournier Courtesy Nicole...
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...Present," a selection of works by forty members. Curated by Gail Bourgeois, Nicole Fournier, Colleen Dwyer Meloche, and Lou Nelson, a combination of founding and current members, the exhibi- tion...
..., street performance in an empty Nicole Fournier, Live Dining, polyculture project, Maguire Meadow lot next to 2035 Saint-Laurent Boulevard, Montréal, during the 2005 (corner...

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autrice  Marie-Ève Charron


 

Photo: Valérian Mazataud,  Le Devoir  

Les expérimentations de Nicole Fournier traversent les frontières de sa maison. En processus depuis l’hiver, l’installation performance Faire des semis (2021) prend le dessus sur l’ordinaire des tâches ménagères.

 

 


Photo: Valérian Mazataud, Le Devoir  
 
Une végétation diversifiée s’empare du terrain de Nicole Fournier, qui y soigne des plants comme des interventions artistiques.

 

Portrait of a Hibiscus Flower connected to source fresh and decomposed

 

Portrait of a Hibiscus Flower connected to source fresh and decomposed Mexico-Montréal 2018 to 2023

 

produced march 18th 2023 by Nicole McDonald-Fournier artwork (figurative drawing of hibiscus flower, installation and performance and concept of connecting plant to source and concept of portrait of a particular hibiscus flower)

 

Title : Portrait of a Hibiscus Flower connected to source (fresh and decomposed Mexico-Montréal 2018-2023 

 

 from series portrait of plants 

 

Intervention of writing date of the present time, on actual drawing, to mark date of decomposition of the orginal flower from Mexico, of which the figurative drawing is the subject of the portrait, was done on the physical drawing, done today march 18th 2023 by me, Nicole McDonald-Fournier. Hi ! 

 

 5 years in the life of a hibiscus flower, first day fresh, soon in the heat of Mexico, quickly curls and decomposers feast, to dry and then transform, the invisible to the human eyes of the processes of microbiotic biodiversity movements. here is the living dried photo of the real hibiscus flower and leaf and the drawings I made of two captured moment or instance in time of its short flower existence, due to microbes eating it up quite quickly. drawing and installation on paper, digital photography and performance by flowers, biodiversity of invisible microbes facilitated and "mise en scène et en valeur" par / by Nicole McDonald-Fournier me ! Hi ! 

 

Creations made during residency in Mexico Dare-Dare project Satellite Mtl-CDMX march and april 2018 

 

 #drawing #figurativedrawing #art #conceptualart #performanceart #contemporaryart #botanicalart #botany #biodiversity #fineart #visual #visualartist #performance #sitespecific #environmentalart #environment #ecology #agroecologia

 

Rediscovered Nicole McDonald-Fournier's biodiversity drawings and prints from 2010 - Drawings printables

 



 

Nicole McDonald-Fournier's biodiversity drawings and prints from 2010

 

 
these are words written drawn that i wrote in 2010 , to begin the 11inches by 14 inches drawing book, representing the interconnectedness of the invisibility in biodiversity that are the reason for beginning 

the instagram account for these drawings and others to come that followed , to come... from 2010 to 2023  https://www.instagram.com/nicsmcf/

#art #biodiversity #drawing #printable #prints #prints #contemporaryart #fineart #visualarts #abstraction #abstractart #abstract #graffiti #doddleart #conceptualart #conceptart #performance #performanceartthoughts 

 after making these drawings,  these words came to me, I wrote drew these words to begin the book that contains these drawings, the drawings make up the book, done in 2010.

Today in 2023, now, i think, that, as a way to understand what I was doing, or so a way to understand these visuals, for myself, I wrote : « It was from the performance on the visualisation of the invisibility of the interconnectedness in biodiversity »  I wrote that because I did a performance that year in the streets of Montréal, Québec, Canada, my home city, the neighbourhood where my father Jean-Jacques Fournier grew up, called Mile End https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile_End,_Montreal

 

here is two links to the info from that performance, and some of the even early biodiversity drawings, that i called «Imaginary interconnected organisms» 2009

Journées de la Culture - le Mile-End - Performance "Organismes imaginaires interconnectés" / "Imaginary interconnected organisms" Performance 

Une performance sur la visualisation de l'invisibilité des interconnections dans la biodiversité / A performance on the visualization of the invisibility of the interconnectedness in biodiversity. 

 



A performance on the visualization of the invisibility of the interconnectedness in biodiversity.

samedi le 26 septembre entre 14-17h / 2009
sur St-Viateur, entre Casgrain et DeGaspé
saturday the 26th of september between 2 - 5pm
on St-Viateur, between Casgrain and DeGaspé

 









Today i see these drawings, in march 2023, for the first time again, after 13 years, or at least 10 years or so. A rediscovery today i write in march 2023: abstract organic forms in movement, it feels what is possible, comes out and the possibility exists for ever and endless possibility of abstract to the human eye organic forms , can be created. I never know what will emerge, i get lost in the process and then suddenly i look up and there is something, that i never thought would emerge. That i remember thinking and living in 2010. words that still resonate with me today in 2023 «..... drawings representing the interconnectedness of the invisibility in biodiversity. .....» the performance in the street that inspired me to do these drawings «...... drawings representing the interconnectedness of the invisibility in biodiversity. ....» words written drawn : « cloth as skin, skin as cloth, stretched, pinned, safe, safety pinned. 

This is a piece of cloth from a dress. This piece of cloth is stretched and ...... This piece of cloth is from the gallery -dress . The gallery-dress, worn as a gallery...... drawings representing the interconnectedness of the invisibility in biodiversity. It was from the gallery dress worn (I wore) for the walk in the street about the complexity of biological diversity.

Live Dining is part of the exhibition Visual Natures, The Politics and Culture of Environmentalism in the 20th and 21st Centuries - march 30 to september 5, 2022

"Live Dining" (2005 and ongoing) 

 is in the exhibition : 

Visual Natures -

The Politics and Culture of Environmentalism in the 20th and 21st Centuries 

 
 
Visual Natures is product of more than two years of critical investigations around climate science, creative practices and eco-politics, Visual Natures is a continuation of the journey started in 2021 with the data-driven installation Earth Bits – Sensing the Planetary and the public programme Climate Emergency > Emergence, curated by the first maat Climate Collective.
 
This research project surveys political, social and cultural forms of collective agency that, over the course of the last one hundred years or so, demonstrate how the transforming human understanding of “nature” – philosophical, biological, economic – informs the ways in which we organise, sustain and govern our communities as an expanding planetary construct, both in concept and practice. The resulting mapping cross-references four subjects of analysis – artistic production and cultural events, technological innovations and scientific findings, social movements, and deliberations of global governance – loosely following a chronological order from the 1950s until today. The presentation defies the challenge of its encyclopaedic character by way of a thematic organisation along three main concatenated clusters – Deep Ecology (1950–1980), The Planetary Complex (1990–2010), Multinaturalism (2010–2020) – each converging around expanding meanings of ‘ecology’ and environmentalism that from the 1960s onwards have grown central in international public debate, as phenomena of global growth, natural resource scarcity and pollution became provenly intertwined. 
 

4 years already ! Remembering Mexico art residency 2018 ....

 I have barely seen time gone by, hardly had time to see 2019, and then 2020 hit, only after 2 years do i finally take a look at these image.

click here for many more, to see the processes of transformation from the beginning to magical moments of exchanges and the procession in the street


Le 5 février 2022, Action de Nicole Fournier « Gelés, mains et cendres fertiles médicinales » / "Frozen, hands and fertile medicinal ashes"





 

Le 5 février 2022, Action de Nicole Fournier « Gelés, mains et cendres fertiles médicinales » / "Frozen, hands and fertile medicinal ashes" 
 
photos de Manoushka Larouche
 
Grand merci à Marie-Claude Gendron

"Faire des semis / Seeding" 2021 , mise à jour 6 aout , matin / update ...

"Faire des semis / Seeding" 2021 , mise à jour 7 aout , 8h le matin / up...

"Faire des semis / Seeding" 2021 , sculpture performance exploration - mise à jour 5 et 7 aout / update August 5th and 7th 2021

english follows

 5 août 2021 photo par moi d'expérimentation et création d'une sculpture vivante comme performance, inspirée des origines d'EmballeToi ! qui a commencé en 2012, ou peut être décrit comme un autre type de mini jardin surélevé utilisant du textile recyclé (projet d'art "EmballeToi!", ouais un projet d'art dans un projet d'art) ou l'appeler alors un pot qui n'est pas rond, n'est pas fait de plastique, d'argile ou de bois, et est un pot qui peut être déballé ou qui n'est pas complètement emballé... et contient ou contient dans ce mini jardin ou pot surélevé, deux de la douzaine ou plus de plants de tomates TF2, celui-ci une variété de tomate "bonny best".

august 5th 2021 photo by me of experimentation and creation of a living sculpture as performance, inspired by the origins of EmballeToi! that began in 2012, or can be described as a different kind of mini elevated garden using recycled textile ( "EmballeToi!" art projet, yep an art projet in an art projet) or call it then a pot that is not round, is not made of plastic , clay or wood, and is a pot that can be unwrapped or is not completely wrapped... and contains or holds in this mini elevated garden or pot, two of the dozen or more TF2 tomato plants, this one a "bonny best" tomato variety.

August 5th 2021




 August 7th 2021







Live Dining 2005- 2015

Corn Field Performances 2002

Verticale - centre d'artistes présente :

Verticale - centre d'artistes présente :
Nicole Fournier et Doug Scholes, un projet de commissariat du collecif N.& M.

Table de Biodiversité : Verdir - Nourrir 2012

À Place Benoît - Les Ateliers Performance ACE (Art-Communautés-Environnement) 2011-2012

À Place Benoît - Les Ateliers Performance ACE (Art-Communautés-Environnement) 2011-2012
Projet EN PARTENARIAT AVEC Le Centre Communautaire Bon Courage (CCBC)

Nourriture et médecine vivantes 2010

Nourriture et médecine vivantes 2010
photo de Johanne Chagnon

2009 Interconnected Performers by Nicole Fournier, artwork-curatorial art project

2009 Interconnected Performers by Nicole Fournier, artwork-curatorial art project
2009 - challenging the idea of artist / curator at the same time, making literally fresh edible, off the wall of the gallery abstract art, in continuation of abstract art traditions, but addressing food and cooking issues, in the gallery, as food is free and everyone is invited to eat, including your dogs. Live action preparing food, compost, on the ground on your tablecloth, with decomposing food nearby validated, fungi, bacteria and airborn microbes are always with us - the invisible performers. (read more on blog)..... Interconnected Performers / Performers interconnectées, image of "The interconnections of people, dogs, fungi, food...performing" by Nicole Fournier, photo by Tagny Duff - feb 1st 2009, moment in performance from Nicole Fournier "painting with food, she made with public on the ground of the gallery, as a live action performance of edible abstract painting, for people and dogs to be eaten live off the wall of the gallery, made of purées of spinach, carrot, potato, onion, parsley, olive oil, garlic...repetition, repetition....

Couvert sur Place, Québec, 2009

Couvert sur Place, Québec, 2009
collective participatory performance presented by Engrenage Noir LEVIER. Le 14 mai à Québec, devant l’Assemblée nationale, organisé par Le Collectif pour un Québec sans pauvreté, Campagne Mission Collective" Bâtir un Québec sans pauvreté

Organic Container 1996-1999

Vision de Nicole Fournier mandat d'InTerreArt / art contemporain / Art Éco interdisciplinaire

InTerreArt a été fondé en février 2008, pour réaliser et disséminer la vision interdisciplinaire d’art de Nicole Fournier , rassemblant Art-Communautés-Environnement : Art se définit par pratiques d’art engagées « LifeArt » (inclusive des disciplines en Arts et Sciences & non-disciplines, connaissances traditionnelles, ancestrales écologiques pour la santé de tous); Communautés est la diversité de peuples et individus, leurs participation par leurs créativités et voix uniques. Environnement reflète notre contact direct avec la Nature, Sa Biodiversité (les trillions d’espèces micro à macro), nos interconnexions, les cycles de la vie, la créativité dans le 3RV (réemploi, recyclage, réduction à la source), santé et alimentation reconnecté directement à la la planète. Ainsi promouvoir la polyagriculture, l’agriculture urbaine, flore & faune urbain, verdissement des villes et ressources naturelles urbains. Parler urbain pour addresser la population lié aux enjeux locaux et globaux. Car si nous pouvons vivre plutôt à l’échelle local nous pourrons laisser le reste de la planète tranquille, et arrêter la destruction de la biodiversité de nos forêts planétaires. L’idée est que nos ressources naturelles proviennent de l’innovation d’agriculture écologique urbaine et périurbaine, en lien avec la croissance et l’intégration des écosystèmes de la flore et faune urbain et périurbain de nos villes.

VISION OF NICOLE FOURNIER / MANDATE OF INTERREART

CONTEMPORARY ART / INTERDISCIPLINARY, ECO ART

InTerreArt was founded in February 2008, to realize and disseminate Nicole Fournier’s interdisciplinary art vision of bringing together Art-Communities-Environnement, that is, engaged art practices, which include nondisciplines and disciplines in arts, sciences, traditional ecological knowledge, environmental health and social services, participation of community members, sustainable greening of cities, biodiversity, urban agriculture, urban wilderness, as Art, in addressing environmental issues on a local and global scale. International inspiration between 1950’s – 80’s include: Suzanne Lacy (engaged art practices), Joseph Beuys ("social sculpture"), Agnes Denes, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, Linda Montano.