I create raw, living art where matter, chaos, and emotion are free to transform over time.

Born Thierry Valiquette in Gatineau, Québec (Canada). His mother, a multidisciplinary visual artist and his father, a part-time songwriter and full-time civil servant by default, influenced him from a young age in a world where creativity is essential and prized. He took visual arts and music lessons until the age of 12. Upon arriving at a Montreal high school, he quickly discovers a strong interest in graffiti culture and focuses on it. Over the next 5 years, he juggles between school and urban art, accumulating his first small mural contracts. At age 17, he left school to work for a few years with an interior designer, with whom he learned the techniques and secrets of faux finishes and other interior finishes. He then studied interior design, where he realized that the artistic practice aspect really connected with him, as well as auto bodywork, where he learned to transform metal and industrial materials. Over the following 6 years, Makes8 devotes himself to drawing daily and continues spray-painting art as often as possible while working in the restaurant industry, where his creation time is quickly swallowed up by the workload he undertakes. During all these years, he did not give up and hoped that one day he could indulge in his artistic practice full-time. It was in March 2020 that he decided to take the plunge. He obtained a workspace to devote himself to his artistic practices across all media.