Biography

Molly Bertheaud (b.1997) is a Canadian artist, based in Montreal, who melds the archaic forms of painting and tapestry, with contemporary techniques to tell modern mythologies. Her phantasmagoric scenes translate paper and paint to thread and yarn, using craft techniques and new technology to create tapestries that reference science fiction/myth, ecology, mortality and femininity. She learned the craft of industrial knitting machines from a knitter.

There is beauty and absurdity in wombs as the machines for life, full of the visceral fragility that comes from loving and creation. The carnivalesque compositions in Molly Bertheaud’s paintings and tapestries explore scenes of a bird women/other hybrid creatures in “nature” spaces; a world of threatened nests, mothering birds, and unknown arrows. Her phantasmagoric scenes translate paper and paint to thread and yarn, using craft techniques and new technology to create tapestries that reference science fiction/myth, ecology, mortality and femininity. She learned the craft of industrial knitting machines from a knitter.