Fortin’s practice engages with materiality, process and colour to reveal the relationships among human activity, non-living things and the ecologies that shape our world. She works in situ with forms and sites, such as cars, trees, an arboretum and a wrecking yard.

Her process involves imprinting residues of the past that influence the conditions of the future. Using reclaimed fabrics, foraged plants, and rust, she works with materials in flux through processes that involve pressure, printing, and dyeing, and an approach informed by time, touch, transformation, science, nature, and experimentation.

Fortin’s work is sensitive to both the artistic possibilities and the embedded social and political histories of materials. She explores the affective potential of material encounters. The index, witnessing, and abstraction become strategies to enlist the imagination in response to the traces of our present reality that the work produces.

Fortin holds a Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art degree from the University of Guelph (Guelph, ON) and completed an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Fine Arts at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University (Halifax, NS). Fortin has participated as a full-time artist-in-residence at Harbourfront Centre (Toronto, ON), Maison des métiers d’art de Québec (Québec City, QC) and Est-Nord-Est (Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, QC). Fortin works in Guelph, Ontario, the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and the traditional lands of the Attiwonderonk and the Haudenosaunee.