The Brace Water Centre has unveiled a new mural by artist Anne Sophie Gaudet, created to highlight the idea that water connects every part of our world. The piece was commissioned to reflect the Centre’s interdisciplinary mission and to show how water moves through our environments, our research, and our daily lives. Its imagery brings together engineers, natural and social scientists, policy thinkers, and communities who all engage with water from different perspectives.
The mural also reflects the Centre’s commitment to research that strengthens understanding, stewardship, and sustainable management of the St. Lawrence River. The river is inseparable from the life of Montreal and the communities along its banks, and it has become central to the Centre’s identity and long term research vision. The mural captures this relationship through a sense of movement and interconnectedness that invites viewers to consider water as both a scientific subject and a cultural, ecological, and social thread.
The mural stands as a reminder that every department at McGill touches water in some way. It reinforces the idea that meaningful solutions emerge when researchers work together across disciplines and when the McGill community approaches water as a shared space of collaboration, curiosity, and responsibility.
