VASE No. 18

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Julie Doucet's hand-painted illustration on a vase created by Montreal ceramist Ronald Pothier. This unique piece, approximately 12 cm high, is ideal for holding pencils, paintbrushes, flowers, lattes, or anything else. This vase is part of a collection of 20 pieces illustrated by 19 great names in illustration.

Winner of the Grand Prix at the 49th Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2022, Julie Doucet is an uncompromising, radical, and subversive author. She was one of the pioneers of autobiographical comics, recounting her daily life, as well as her dreams and nightmares. Her personal and free-spirited work, unconcerned with conventions and radically feminist, addresses themes and motifs rarely discussed, especially in such a direct way: the body, periods, sexual fantasies, and gender issues.

After studying visual arts at Cégep du Vieux Montréal in the early 1980s, Julie Doucet enrolled at UQAM, where she discovered comics. She then began publishing a photocopied fanzine, Dirty Plotte, in which she documented her daily life, dreams, and anxieties in French and English. The title was taken over in 1991 by the Montreal publisher Drawn & Quarterly. In France, L'Association is largely responsible for the publication of her work.

After living in New York, Seattle, and Berlin, Julie Doucet now lives in Montreal, where she works in a field closer to graphic arts (collage, poetry, photo-novels). Her screenprints are published in limited editions by Le Pantalitaire, the mono-publishing house she founded in 2013.