Violette Dionne was born in Québec City in 1959. She completed an MFA at Université du Québec à Montréal in 1988. Time spent in Europe allowed her to familiarize herself with Roman and Gothic art, from which she drew abundant inspiration until the mid-1990s, for instance in her playful pastiches of religious statuary (Travers saints, Galerie Optica, 1988). Her work is concerned with the human experience and seeks to represent it with both gravity and humour (Toutes proportions perdues, Galerie d’art d’Outremont, 2002). A versatile sculptor who has worked with wood, stone, and cement, she now focuses almost exclusively on ceramics. Over the past fifteen years, Dionne has created numerous public works.