Nicole Aline Legault

Artist // Image Gatherer // Illustrator // Photo Retouching //

About

Nicole Aline Legault is a Canadian artist based in Montreal, Quebec. She has worked as a freelance illustrator and artist in print, film, and music. Raised on the east coast of Canada, her work often examines our need to reconnect with the natural world and has been deeply inspired by the ocean, nature, and dreams of whales.

Education

Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University – BFA – fine art / drawing

Permanent Collections

Grey Whale – Watercolour on paper 2022 – Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.

Selected Exhibitions

2015 – 2016

Group Exhibition – Lonely Whale Foundation – Art Basel – Miami, FL (digital art show)

Solo Exhibit – The Fountain – Toronto, ON

Solo Exhibit – Casa Del Popolo – Montreal, QC

Group Exhibition / Fundraiser /  for Girls Art League – OCAD – Toronto, ON

2010 – 2011

Solo Exhibit – Casa Del Popolo – Montreal, QC

Group Exhibition – immersive artwork / installations to accompany music from The Happiness Project by Charles Spearin – in collaboration with Artist Bloc and Apple Crisp Festival – Kingston, ON

2009

Group Exhibition – immersive artwork / installations to accompany music from The Happiness Project by Charles Spearin – in collaboration with Artist Bloc and Pop Montreal Music Festival – Montreal, QC

Group Exhibition Art’d – curated by Studio Gallery and Pink Mafia – Toronto, ON

Studio Nine – Group Exhibition – Toronto, ON

2007 – 2008

Fountain Contemporary Gallery – Group Show – Toronto, ON

Gallery Deluxe Gallery – collaboration with Melody Hovey – Halifax, NS

Mackenzie Art Gallery – emerging artist group exhibition – Moncton, NB

Seeds Gallery (window) – Halifax, NS

Bis Aufs Messer – collaboration with Melody Hovey – Berlin, Germany

My Hero Gallery – co-curator & artist – group exhibit for Pop Montreal Music Festival – Montreal, QC

Selected Art+Work 

2007 – present 

Ongoing portrait project titled look i drew you!

2014 – present

Annual projects launched through Kickstarter to create limited edition calendars and prints of new series’ of artwork. These projects are created in the last quarter of the year and have been successfully funded for the last 8 years. 

2011 – 2022

Various Private commissions

Album Artwork / Animations / collaborative art direction for Storm by Christina Martin

Album Art / Design – self titled by Big Share

look i drew you! portraits for Conflict Creates & Longos 

Illustrations for Lululemon in collaboration with Etsy

Illustrations for Moment Factory – Madonna Like A Prayer tour

Illustrations for Chloes – a novella by Dean Garlick

Congas decorated with reflective broken CD’s for Arcade Fire Reflektor tour 

Illustrations for Moment Factory – Céline Dion Lullaby for Vegas 

Monthly look i drew you! portraits for EnRoute magazine Out of Office section

Seventy look i drew you! portraits for US Foods head office

Decorations / hand drawn posters for Arcade Fire secret show as The Reflektors – Montreal

Watercolour paintings for Impossible to Hold album artwork by Christina Martin

Live charcoal drawing for auction – World Wildlife Fund

2009 – 2010

Album artwork for Avant EP / The Lost Tapes DVD for Buck 65

Drawings for animated music video Tobias Grey by Postdata

Drawings for animated music video Disclaimer by The Dears

Drawings for backgrounds for music video Arlington by Ridley Bent

Drawings for animation – short film/trailer to promote album The Happiness Project by Charles Spearin

Drawings for music video Compromise by Shad

Drawings for Buck65 documentary The Lost Tapes

Drawings for animated music video Angel Street by Lucie Idlout

Palimpsest Magazine curator and collaborator

2007 – 2008

Drawings for Projected Animations and Set Design for Buck65’s 2008 tour

Drawings for Global TV Documentary The Real Fight Club

Drawings for animated music video Shutterbuggin by Buck65

Drawings for animated music video The Flood Pt 1 by The Acorn