Charlie Larouche-Potvin

Charlie Larouche-Potvin is a Montreal glass blower and artist-designer who trained in Murano with Maestro Davide Fuin. His practice reinterprets Venetian techniques in a contemporary language.

A graduate of Espace Verre in 2020, a member of the Fusion workshop until 2022 and an Associate-in-Residence at Jam factory (Australia) in early 2023, Larouche-Potvin won the Prix François-Houdé de la Ville de Montreal and the RBC Glass Award from the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in 2024. He is a professional member of the Conseil des métiers d’art du Québec.

His work has been presented at the Biennale Révélations in Paris and at Contemporània in Barcelona, where he received a mention in Vogue Polska Living. Additionally, his work had been shown internationally and nationally with a solo exhibition at the Sandra Ainsley gallery, Canada’s leading glass art gallery.

Thanks to his expertise in Venetian techniques, Larouche-Potvin was invited as a guest artist at Sheridan College in Ontario and the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk in the United States. He has taught workshops at The Glass Spot in Virginia, Espace Verre and at Harbourfront Centre, where he has been an Artist-in-Residence since 2023.