While aiming to promote the awareness of a serious ecological problem, I have been using society's non biodegradable plastic cast-offs for over three decades now.

I wash and store them by color. When a color imposes itself, I go to work listening to what it has to tell me, and show you what it said. Through descriptive scenarios of such themes as unity, animal rights, acid rain, abortion, threat of nuclear devastation, psychology, history, etc.

My works are sometimes site specific, kinetic, fountains, etc. I do not paint the objects as I prefer playing with "natural: hues and gradations of a color. I do not use glue, it is a greater challenge for me to chance upon meaningful juxtapositions of the objects, as though they were predestined to interlock. (Sometimes using plastic covered wire to permanently secure the objects).

Diana Boulay

BORN
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1946

EDUCATION
- University of Quebec at Montreal (B.F.A.), ’81
- The Montreal Museum School of Art and Design, ’74 -‘75

AWARDS AND HONOURS

- Project Grant from Canada Council, March ' 87
- First Prize winner at the annual Exhibition of the Quebec Sculpture Council,
  Montreal ' 84(Quebec Ministry of Cultural Affairs)
- Finalist at the E.T. Greenshields Foundation's Exhibition, U.Q.A.M. Gallery, Montreal, ' 81

COLLECTIONS

- Prêt d'oeuvre, Quebec Ministry of Cultural Affairs.
- Centre Hospitalier Jacques Viger.
- Several private collections.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Resource person for %, Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Quebec, ' 87 - ' 88
- Lecture, Technical Procedures, John Abbott College.
- Lecture, Technical Procedures, University of Dayton, Ohio.

TEACHING AND ANIMATION
1988: Technical Procedures teacher, Balwin-Cartier School Board, Montreal.
1982-1983: Sculture teacher, St-Léonard.
1975-1980: Yoga teacher, Colette Maher Studio, Montreal.

ASSOCIATIONS
- Member of the Quebec Sculpture Council.
- Member of the International Sculpture Center and Sculpture Source.
- Member of the Visual Arts Ontario Woman Artists Registry
- Member of the North Dakota Art Gallery Association.
- Member of the Arts as a Healing Force Organisation.

AUDIO VISUAL DOCUMENTARY

- Educational slide-documentary by Jocelyn Philibert.
- Works featured in the movie "Peanut Butter Solution".
- L'Image de l'Art Plus, secondaire, Les Éditions Beauchemin, Laval.
- Artexte, Montreal.
 

Everything that attracts the eye, affects the senses in some way: Depending on it's appearance, color, shape or use. To look at an object from all it's angles is to study form.

Through the discovery of the objects, the choice of colors, the manipulations of these objects, my sculptures symbolically illustrate such themes as: Ecology, Psychology, Sociology, even History.

In all, a pedagogical objective: To make the general public aware of the magic in forms and colors of discarded objects that are a part of our lives.