Fortin is a process-based artist whose practice engages materiality and the ecologies of the everyday. She works in situ with forms and sites, such as cars, trees, fields, forests, an arboretum and a wrecking yard, using reclaimed fabrics, found objects, plants, and rust; materials in flux through processes involving pressure, assemblage, sewing, printing, and dyeing. Her approach is informed by time, matter as an active participant, environment, and experimentation; and her work is sensitive to the artistic possibilities, embedded social and political histories and futurity of materials and ecologies.
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 the 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). Recent exhibitions include Field Notes at the Grimsby Public Art Gallery (Grimsby, ON), and The Weight of Stains, The Wait of Time at the Art Gallery of Guelph (Guelph, ON). She will present work in shows with Xpace (Toronto, ON) and Tom Thomson Art Gallery (Owen Sound, ON) in 2027. Fortin is based in Guelph, Ontario, within the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and the ancestral lands of the Attawandaron, the Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples, and is home today to many First Nation, Inuit, and Métis people.