My work seeks to represent natural and fragile elements in all their subtlety. I use a grease pencil on lithographic stone to depict this object by translating its qualities into a drawing: the precision of its shape, its surface, its texture and its tones of gray.

The drawing, which I use in the lithographic printing process, enables me to explore this medium's specificity. I produce several images of the same subject, and then print them in various ways. Through the production of variants, I explore the multiplicity of renderings that can be obtained from a single matrix. On the one hand, this stimulates a reflection on the drawing itself and the complexity of its essence, and on the other, on the broad range of material embodiments a single lithographic image can give rise to in a process that is also about exploring repetition and the motif.

Born and raised in Victoriaville, Julie Bellavance earned her MFA from Université Laval in 2018. From 2019-2020, her love of lithography led her to continue her studies at the Tamarind Institute Printer Training Program in the United States. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Quebec, France, Germany and Scotland. She has participated in artist residencies in Val David, Trois-Rivières, as well as in Germany in the summer of 2019. A recipient of Atelier Circulaire's Bourse pour la relève en arts imprimés, she was an artist in residence there in 2020-2021. Her work is part of various public collections in Quebec and internationally, including the Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec, the Sammlung Lithographie Eichstätt in Germany and the Fairfield University Art Museum in the United States. Due to the recognition of the high quality of her work, she has been requested to print for artists such as Paryse Martin (Quebec City), Martin Bureau (Quebec City), Stephanie Mercado (Los Angeles) and Marc Séguin (Montreal).