Fortin’s practice engages with materiality, process and colour. She works in situ with forms and sites, such as cars, trees, an arboretum and a wrecking yard.

Using reclaimed fabrics, foraged plants, and rust, she works with materials in flux through processes involving pressure, printing, and dyeing, and with 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, while the index, witnessing, and abstraction enlist the imagination in response to the traces of present ecologies 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 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.