sophia bartholomew

sophia bartholomew is a queer, non-binary person and interdisciplinary artist, descended from Norwegian immigrants on Treaty 3 territory west of Thunder Bay, and English and Irish settlers living on the shores of Lake Ontario. Working outwards from the ruins and runes of their own cultural inheritance, their practice spans drawing, writing, sculpture and installation, photography, video, performance, collaboration, and small, daily negotiations with found materials and household waste. Their work borrows its poetics from rural knowledge systems, including craft patterns and junk piles, folk stories and sagas, improvised adaptations and decisions of necessity. sophia received their BFA from UBC in 2012 and their MFA from the University of Guelph in 2022, and they have exhibited their work at art galleries, artist-run centres, and grassroots art spaces across Canada, in Europe, and in Cuba. They have been tending Musagetes’ Mike MacDonald butterfly garden since 2023.

Photo credit: Richard Laviolette