Bigoudi is the nom de plume of Pascale Ouellet, visual artist based in Canmore, Alberta.
"Although my native province of Quebec has shaped the person I am, my adoptive Alberta has transformed the artist I have become."
During her formative years in the mid 90s, Pascale has completed a diploma at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in Fine Arts and Communications, attended the Visual Arts Program at the Université du Québec à Montréal and graduated from an intensive Interior Design program at Inter-Dec College in Montreal. After moving to Alberta in 2002, she has been largely self directed in her artistic pursuits – participating in artist-residencies, collaborating with other artists and teaching when time allows.
Since 2004, Pascale has produced 29 solo exhibitions, participated in more than 35 juried group shows across Canada, and been awarded four Public Art Commissions by the Town of Canmore. She has participated in four artistic residencies at The Banff Centre and have been selected as a 2015 artist-in-residence with TRACS program on Fogo Island in Newfoundland.
Pascale Ouellet is represented by 3 galleries in Western Canada and 2 in the USA and her work is in corporate and personal collections across Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Norway, Switzerland, Argentina and the United Kingdom. Her work is also in the permanent collection of the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and at the University of Regina.
