Marilou Chagnaud is a Canadian-born, York-based artist whose practice combines printmaking, sculpture, and site-specific installation. Through the use of line, colour, and pattern, she explores how people experience space, place, and movement. Her work often responds to the natural world, engaging with themes of fragility and transformation. From studying wind in the Northumberland moorlands to exploring coastal erosion in Norfolk, Marilou transforms soft, tactile materials such as paper and textiles into sculptural forms that reflect both natural and urban environments.
QEST support will enable Marilou to undertake advanced training in paper processes across the UK and Japan. Her programme includes washi papermaking at Kawahira Studio in Japan, an intensive papermaking course at The Paper Foundation in Cumbria, Japanese paper dyeing, bookbinding and box-making with QEST Scholar Lucy May Schofield in Northumberland, and short courses at West Dean College and Emerson College exploring natural pigments and pattern.
This training will allow Marilou to create her own materials, expand the scale and ambition of her work, and share her craft through workshops and community engagement across the UK.
