A graduate of the National School of the Arts in France, Lionel has been working with computer graphics and virtual media since 1991. In 1998 he began collaborating with Robert Lepage in Quebec City and has over the years been involved in works such as La Damnation de Faust, La famille sans nom, Apasionada, La Trilogie des dragons - version 2003: a remarkable six-hour piece revamped in 2003 to include video projections, and The Busker's Opera, a new version of the Opera des gueux from Robert Lepage.
Over the past year, he has work as Images Designer on the opera "1984," premiering at Royal Opera House, London, in 2005.
He has recently worked with organizations such as: Le Theatre Peril and La Compagnie Marie Dumais (his work on The Plague received an honorable mention at the 2003 Quebec City Art and Culture awards), Musée de la Mer de la Point-au-Père (his permanent 3-D stereoscopic installation was awarded Prix de l'installation 2002), Manoir Mauvide Genet, Maison Girardion and the Quebec Aquarium project. In 2001, Lionel was on the creative team of Quebec in New York that was to open September 13, 2001 at the foot of the World Trade Center. In 2003 Lionel produced the special effects for a CBC television special produced by Veronica Tenant entitled Northern Lights - Visions and Dreams. Constantly inspired by the power of the arts, Lionel seeks out new spaces and directions by constantly sculpting, painting and drawing mixed with multimedia.
