Fortin’s practice engages materiality, colour and process to explore the interrelationships that shape existence. Her approach is to imprint residues of the past that influence the shifting conditions of the future. She works with forms and sites surrounding urban environments—cars, trees, an arboretum, and a wrecking yard—to reveal the intersecting relationship among human activity, non-living things, 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 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University (Halifax, NS). Fortin has participated as a full-time artist-in-residence with Harbourfront Centre (Toronto, ON), Akin + Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA), La Maison des métiers de Québec (Quebec City, QC) and Est-Nord-Est (Saint-Jean-Port- Joli,QC) as part of the 2021 Biennale de Sculpture de Saint-Jean-Port-Joli. She has been honoured with awards from Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Craft Ontario, Harbourfront Centre, University of Guelph and The Canadian Federation of University Women. Fortin’s studio resides in Guelph, Ontario, on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (Anishinaabe), within the Dish With One Spoon Wampum covenant territory held with the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the historic lands of the Attiwonderonk peoples.