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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY IN BRIEF

Timothy Belliveau’s biography is currently hard to obtain and littered with potential inaccuracies due to a lack of records and circulated myths. According to his own words, his early years were all filled with adventure, hardship and traveling, claiming improbably to have killed a bear at the age of 10. His middle-class background and academic success masked a growing contempt for what he saw as the empty materialism of North American society. The works of Alexander Wilson, Hans Peter Duerr and Carlos Castaneda had a strong influence on Belliveau, and he dreamed about leaving society for a Thoreau-like period of solitary contemplation. This he achieved, living in a tent in a Yukon forest for a summer. Upon his return to Calgary he went through art college, and set to work on a glass art studio with his friends, Ryan Fairweather and Phil Bandura.

-- Timothy Belliveau