Stéphanie Nuckle – CUSTOM RESIDENCY
Stéphanie Nuckle’s artistic practice is based on a critical reflection on the metamorphosis of built territories and natural environments. Mainly guided by field research, she traces routes, consults maps and observes urban flora to better grasp past and present modifications. This research enables her to create new visual, installation and sound references, deepening her understanding of the spaces she perceives, designs and experiences. Photography also plays a central role in his approach. She uses it to capture events, lifestyles and changes in the places she explores. Both a documentary tool and a starting point for transforming the image, she uses it in its raw, archival form and draws inspiration from it to work with drawing and printmaking. She manipulates color, light and texture to give them new meanings. This visual approach slowly but surely evolves towards increasing abstraction, resonating with current political and environmental upheavals.
Photo credit: Stéphanie Nuckle
Biography
Stéphanie Nuckle is a visual artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Moonyiang/Montréal. She holds a bachelor’s degree in visual and media arts from UQAM (2015) and is developing a multidisciplinary practice integrating performance, installation, drawing, sound art, photography and print art. She is involved in a number of artist-run centers and collaborates on artists’ books, publications and self-managed performance events, such as Complot 13 (2018) and En attendant sa chute II (2022 – 2025). Since 2019, she has been teaching screen printing at L’Imprimerie center d’artistes and cyanotype at Atelier Circulaire 2023, to a variety of audiences, including professional artists. In 2023, she received a CAC grant for a research and creation project entitled Recherche en cyanotype et en virage de couleurs à partir de plantes tinctoriales : une exploration de friches urbaines. In 2025, she also received a CALQ acquisition and marketing grant.
Customized residency project
As part of her custom residency, Stéphanie is finalizing a cyanotype and color-turn research-creation project developed between 2023 and 2025 based on photographic documentation of Montreal’s wastelands and woodlands. To date, this research has enabled her to archive various green spaces, while deepening her knowledge of botany and natural dyes, which she integrates into the coloring of her prints.
For this residency, she wishes to revisit this corpus by producing a series of cyanotypes, as well as photogravures and inkjet prints. She will also explore a more abstract visual language through various processes involving light, concealment and manual intervention, which she will develop in dialogue with her landscape photographs. These two approaches will attempt to respond to the progressive erosion of biodiversity, both on a metropolitan scale and in a more global context. For her, it’s a way of questioning our representations of nature, as well as our imprint on it.
Photo credit: Stéphanie Nuckle
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