Emmeline—also known as Moule—is a multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal who specializes in mural painting, illustration, and graphic design. After studying art and graphic design in France, London, and Berlin, she worked for several years as a senior designer at the Society for Arts and Technology before devoting herself entirely to her artistic practice.
Through her murals, she explores themes related to nature, community, and inclusivity. Driven by feminist and collaborative values, she also develops participatory workshops to create spaces for exchange and make art accessible to everyone.
Helena Martel is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist living in Montreal.
Her career as a mental health social worker inspires her artistic practice, allowing her to ground herself in socially engaged art. Her practice revolves around painting and drawing, which she uses to bring to light and highlight realities that are often rendered invisible and silenced. She draws on her lived experiences—both personal and professional—to explore the paradoxes and complexities that can coexist within individuals and in society as a whole. For the past four years, she has also been exploring mural art, addressing themes of human dignity and community well-being. She is currently working on the themes of aging and agriculture, which are intimately linked to intergenerational collective knowledge. She strives to infuse her art with a sense of care, aiming to give visibility to realities that are underrepresented in our public spaces. Through her practice, she has participated in numerous mural festivals in various parts of the world, including Canada, Mexico, and Australia.
Born in Sherbrooke, she spent much of her childhood and adolescence in Tunisia before settling in Montreal in 2014. Passionate about the arts from a very young age, she first developed her artistic practice through pencil drawing before turning to acrylic painting, digital art, and mural art.
Introduced to the Montreal art scene in 2018, she quickly discovered the world of murals and collaborative creation.
Her work primarily features portraits of women in which the gaze and facial expressions take center stage. Straddling figurative art and personal interpretation, she seeks to create works that convey emotion.
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Artwork description
This work marks a significant milestone in the City of Montreal’s Mural Art Projects (PAM) as the program’s first explicitly feminist mural. Created through a collaboration between three Montreal-based artists—Abir Brika, Moule, and Hélèna Martel—this mural is located in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighborhood, at the headquarters of the organization Prévention NDG-CDN, which spearheaded the project. The mural pays tribute to the youth collective “La voix des jeunes compte” (Youth Voices Matter), whose activism has for several years supported the creation of a law protecting victims of sexual assault in elementary and high schools. Inspired by the movement led by young girls and women, the artists sought to visually embody the values of support, community, sisterhood, activism, healing, and youth. Through the depiction of female figures with strong, determined gazes, this mural aims to strengthen a sense of belonging and encourage girls and women in the neighborhood to claim public spaces as their own.
Instagram of the youth collective “La voix des jeunes compte”: https://www.instagram.com/lavoixdesjeunescompte/