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Born in Montreal, Sylvie Roussel-Janssens lives in British Colombia since 1980. She graduated with honours from Emily Carr College of Art in 1984, specializing in sculpture and now lives in Chilliwack. She shows frequently and obtained a Canada Art Council in 2001 for Sumas Lake: 22 Miles of Memories, an amphibian sculptural installation about Sumas lake, a disappeared tidal lake in the Fraser valley. Her work shows her interests in history and the environment. Sylvie’s approach to sculpture is equally conceptual and based in the joy of the building process. Her light sculptures are welded wire and fabric constructions. They take three forms: sculptural installations, light boxes with integrated lighting and window panels. Sylvie developed her own techniques: “fabric burning”. By using a soldering iron on synthetic fabric, she burns small holes in synthetic fabric to obtain rich and complex images. She also sews pieces of acetate on the fabric that are photocopies of images and text. Sylvie Roussel-Janssens i
