CHRYSALIS
LOUISE CAMPION
RENÉE EDMONA MATHEWS
MADELINE RICHARDS
OCTOBER 11 TONOVEMBER 23, 2025
ARTIST RECEPTION:
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025
2 P.M. TO 6 P.M.
PATRICK MIKHAIL PRESENTS CHRYSALIS AN EXHIBITION FEATURING THREE NEW MONTRÉAL ARTISTS
PATRICK MIKHAIL is pleased to present CHRYSALIS, a group exhibition featuring three Montréal artists--Louise Campion, Renée Edmona Mathews, Madeline Richards--developing the foundations of their professional practices.Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance, these artists are exploring themes of grief, the body, memory, spirituality, healing, environmental responsibility, power, social violence, and the emotional and psychological dimensions of survival.
Louise Campion is a French artist and writer working between Montréal, Glasgow, and Paris. She holds a BFA from Concordia University and MFA from the Glasgow School of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at The Untitled Space New York City, The Glue Factory in Glasgow, UK) and ICAT in Hamburg. Materially, Campion's practice is deeply intertwined with her commitment to environmental justice. She hand-makes and recycles materials, and experiments with traditional techniques to create art that resists the wastefulness of contemporary production. This ethos is part of her participation in the Slow Painting movement, where deliberate and thoughtful methods become acts of defiance in a world driven by speed, consumption, and exploitation. Campion's work from Chrysalis has recently been acquired by the Hermes Collection, Paris.
Renée Edmona Mathews is an interdisciplinary artist who uses soft sculpture, collage, drawing, and performance. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, her work investigates concepts surrounding the body, spirituality, and the relationship between inner and outer worlds. Using techniques and processes that tend toward the tedious, her practice places emphasis on materiality, healing, and environmental responsibility. For Chrysalis, Mathews presents two sculptural works Frankenlegs and What a Life in addition to Cocoon, a new sculpture that will culminate in a live durational performance. Mathews lives in Montréal where she completed a BFA in Studio Art at Concordia University. She has exhibited at VAV Gallery Montreal, Contact Photography Festival Toronto.
Madeline Richards is a Montréal figurative painter exploring ideas around memory, grief, and the body. She has an MFA from the University of Ottawa and has exhibited at University of British Columbia, Vancouver's Audain Art Centre, Ottawa Art Gallery, with upcoming exhibitions in the 2026 Post-Invisibles Biennial and Ottawa's Karsh-Masson Gallery. In Night Chasers, Richards presents a series of paintings depicting both body and environment in transformation. She approaches this work through the lens of gothic romance and horror genres. In this surreal world, the transforming body enacts caring and violent impulses found in humans and nature. Feminist posthuman themes of ‘becoming are used to depict and question ambivalence in relationships between humans and also the ecosystems we are a part of. She considers these relationships as collaboration, conflict, acts of love, and a means of survival.