Sophie P-Voyer
Atelier Retailles (MTL)
Sophie P-Voyer is the founding artist behind Montreal’s papermaking studio Atelier Retailles, established in 2018. Sophie discovered papermaking during her BFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University in 2016. She continued exploring ways to incorporate handmade paper into contemporary practices ever since. At Atelier Retailles, she teaches workshops, accompanies artists working with paper and provides expertise for projects including the transformation of various materials into paper pulp. At the core of her mission, the use of fabric scraps coming from the local slow fashion industry is crucial for ecological reasons. For her, extending the life cycle of found materials and reflecting on the properties of paper in our work as artists is essential.
