Luanne Martineau currently lives and works in Victoria, BC, where she is a Professor at the University of Victoria. Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1970, Martineau studied art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design before transferring to the Alberta College of Art & Design, where she received her Fine Art Diploma in 1993. She completed her MFA at the University of British Columbia in 1995.
Martineau’s wool sculptures and drawings explore the places in between art genres, engaging a long tradition of social satire within contemporary art. Combining various methods of craft and the legacies of 1960s fine art, Martineau blurs the boundaries between style and ideology as well as high modernist art and the baseness of the body. Martineau's recent limited edition artist book FREAKOUT (temporal bodies) brings together images of her work with eight texts ranging from Hannah Hoch to Woody Allen.
