70 years after Refus global, Françoise Sullivan remains revolutionary

It’s been 70 years since a group of young Québécois artists calling themselves Les Automatistes lit a torch in the Grande Noirceur of the Duplessis era with their collective manifesto Refus global. It was, it’s generally agreed, the spark that ignited not just Québécois but Canadian modern art.
Among the writers and signatories was the group’s last surviving member, Françoise Sullivan, whose spectacular and multi-faceted career — dancer,