Educated at the University of Guelph, Sophie Edwards is an emerging artist/writer and a community animator/activist in the Manitoulin-La Cloche region of Northern Ontario. She has won numerous awards for her work, and been invited to exhibit with group and solo shows. Her work encompasses site installation, intervention, painting and multi-media. Through inquiries an emerging language of motherhood explains the parameters of "home" and merges with conflicting desires to be held within this circle and to simultaneously withdraw from it.

In Sophie’s inquiry project, entitled Shield and Temple, Canada’s Precambrian Shield and the prehistoric temples of Malta are places for exploration of the wildness of landscape and the culture of archaeology, respectively. Works will integrate site intervention with drawing, photography text and installation.