Elisabeth Belliveau

Belliveau's story begins with a loss of innocence over ice skater Katarina Witt's fall from grace by posing in Playboy. It is told through both drawings and email text between friends. The story jumps between Canada and the United States and travels abroad navigating life after art school, marriage and divorce. It is a year in a life, but one that is pregnant with memory, meaning and desire. It is a post-modern coming of age story which quite literally crosses boundaries.

This is the much anticipated follow-up to Belliveau's collection of zines, the great hopeful someday. This time around the book features full colour artwork and a series of texts the artist has been working on at various residencies around the world (including England's Lake District and Newfoundland's Fogo Island). The texts effortlessly blend poetry and prose in stories about the dogs of feminist icons and finding and losing love. The book is packaged with a DVD of her new animation Margaret's Mountain, Belliveau's longest animated work to date. This book / DVD is the size and shape of a DVD case to appeal to both the art book audience and the indie film audience.