About Grace Papineau-Couture

Grace Papineau-Couture is a Canadian artist from Edmonton, Alberta, currently based in Chicago, Illinois. Working across sound performance, installation, video and print, Grace merges the physicality and ephemerality of analog audio and folk storytelling to speak to linkages between drone, myth, ritual and superstition. With a material interest in using sound as raw material, Grace pulls apart ritual and superstition through the creation of field recordings, sampling and uncanny instruments.
Focusing on the low tech and ordinary objects as sonic instruments, Grace constructs haunting meditations through sound that articulate breakage and variance within loops, repetitive action, and ritualization of labour. By using industrial materials like sheet metal alongside natural objects such as tree branches as instruments, Grace materializes the blurred relationship between modern life and archaic fears through sound.

An artist and performer, Grace has exhibited their work across Canada and the US, most recently in Hyde Park Art Center’s “Ground Floor” exhibition and a solo show at Gallery 4009 titled “Rituals I Can’t Complete”. She has also shown work at dc3 arts in Alberta, High Concept Labs, Purple Window Gallery and Comfort Station in Chicago. Grace performs live and records experimental music and sound art under the name Mountain Laurel.

Grace has an interdisciplinary artistic background, trained across visual and performing arts. They hold a Bachelor of Fine arts in experimental media and printmaking from the University of Alberta and a Master of Fine Arts in interdisciplinary studio practice from Columbia College Chicago.

You can find Grace on instagram or on bandcamp

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Sound Work — Sound compositions.
Installation & Performance — Performance-based works, sound installations and other video works.
Graphic Scores & Handmade instruments — Graphic scores/experimental notation and handmade instruments.

contact: for inquiries, email me.