Artist Statement
Gabrielle de Montmollin began her career in television and film before switching her interest to still photography. She has exhibited widely in Canada, the United States, and Europe. She is a member of The Red Head Gallery, an artist collective in Toronto, Canada.
Process Statement
De Montmollin's photographs are composed of imaginative tableaux vivants featuring dolls, masks, toys and other objects in surreal narratives. For many years she worked exclusively with black and white film photographing throwaway plastic toys and dolls arranged in constructed, fantasy settings. Recently de Montmollin has been working with mixed media blending painting, drawing and montage elements with digital prints.