Sculptor. Born in Montreal, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Montreal, and at the University of Vincennes in Paris, taking up sculpture around 1970. He helped to found the Département des Arts Plastiques at the University of Montreal, where he taught for over 20 years (1975–97). His work as a sculptor was mostly abstract or semi-representational. He was highly influential in the Quebec art world through his efforts to integrate the fields of art and architecture. His works include Systèmes in the Namur metro station, Montreal, Totem Urbain/histoire en dentelles at McCord Museum, McGill University, Montreal, and Egalité/equivalence at Laval University in Quebec City. In 1993 Granche won a competition for the Canadian War Memorial for Green Park, London, which was unveiled in 1994. His early death, at the age of 48, was deemed a great loss to the Quebec art scene.
Source: various websites.
Bibliography: P. Ward-Jackson, Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster. Volume 1, Liverpool, 2011, pp. 48–49, 449
Philip Ward-Jackson, 2011
