Bio
Joelle LB (b. 1981) is a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist working across photography and fibres. Her current practice took shape after studying plant medicine, which introduced her to foraging on Vancouver Island and across the Canadian Rockies, a practice she has continued since moving back to Montreal. Years of close attention to the natural world eventually found its way into her art, first through landscape and nature photography, where she became drawn to night skies, patterns, textures, and the abstract qualities hidden in natural surfaces, and later into material-based processes on textiles and paper.
Having previously explored mediums as varied as fashion & footwear design, special effects makeup, mold making, and food styling, her restless curiosity across disciplines remains central to how she works. After years of struggling with PTSD, she discovered that making art was the one thing that consistently allowed her to stay grounded and functional. Working with her hands, following slow and methodical processes, conducting experiments, and staying close to nature became less a practice and more a lifeline.
She is drawn to processes that start from raw materials, mixing, extracting, and transforming matter by hand, which is what led her to natural dyeing, pigment and botanical ink extraction, and the chemistry of color on paper and textiles. She is currently completing a BFA in Fibres and Material Practices at Concordia University.
Her work has been featured in Journal de Montréal, Qui Fait Quoi, and the LUMEN Festival programming, and has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, ArtVerse Paris, SCOPE Art Show Miami, and Art Basel Miami. In 2023 she held her first solo exhibition, Into the Void, at 0xSociety during the LUMEN Festival in Montreal.
Between 2021 and 2026 she sold hundreds of artworks to onchain collectors worldwide.
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Fibres & material practices, Concordia University, Montreal, 2025 -
Special Effects Makeup certificate, Cinema Makeup School, Los Angeles, 2005 - 2006
Makeup certificate, Interdec College, Montreal, 2004
Fashion Design DEC, Institut Supérieur de Design de Mode, 2000 - 2002