sophia bartholomew works outwards from the ruins and runes of their own cultural inheritance.
Descended from Norwegian immigrants west of Thunder Bay, on Treaty 3 territory, and English and Irish settlers on the shores of Lake Ontario, their practice spans drawing, writing, sculpture and installation, photography, collaboration, video, textiles, and small, daily negotiations with found materials and household waste. Their work borrows its poetics from craft patterns and junk piles, folk stories and sagas, improvised adaptations and decisions of necessity.
sophia has presented their work in London, Berlin, and Havana, and at galleries and artist-run centres across Canada.
They received their BFA from UBC and their MFA from the University of Guelph. Their writing has been published by Art Forum, cmagazine, Black Flash, Canadian Art, Public Parking, and Peripheral Review. Recent exhibitions include CommonOpulence: wishcraft at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie and The heart is not always a metaphor at Ministry of Casual Living in Victoria.
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bartholomew . sophia @ gmail . com
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