risograph 11 x 17″ double-sided, sophia bartholomew, 2024
sophia bartholomew, 11 x 17″ risograph, in charcoal ink on light grey paper, printed at Moniker Press, and released by Hammock Residency Press, in conjunction with their residency with Hammock Residency in 2024.
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sophia bartholomew
sophia bartholomew is a queer person and interdisciplinary artist, descended from Norwegian immigrants on Treaty 3 territory in rural Northwestern Ontario, and English and Irish settlers in and around so-called Toronto. Working outwards from the ruins and runes of their own cultural inheritance, their practice spans drawing, writing, sculpture- and installation-making, video, 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. By engaging processes of transference and intra-action, their projects consider experiences of loss, physical fragility, interconnection and impermanence, while upholding queer practices of fluidity, adaptability, transformation, hope, and love. Recent group exhibitions include grass taps at the plumb, Loose Parts at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, All Flourishing Is Mutual with Images Festival, and this dream pays for its space in my heart at the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery. sophia received their BFA from UBC in 2012 and their MFA from the University of Guelph in 2022. In 2023 they participated in Plug In ICA’s Summer Institute.
