Ulrike Balke graduated from Sheridan College and has used her design education to support activities as a committed painter and stitcher as well as employment in the advertising and design industry. Ulrike's current work uses digital paint programs to literally stitch together digital evidence of inquiry, original texts and painted images. Her technical facility with the digital world gives her the ability to subvert commercial processes used in advertising and design and create powerful and alternative cultural statements, for projection or the web environment.

Her Malta Inquiry Project "Butcher's Daughter, The Myth of Sacrifice" springs from her personal experience and unites her inquiry with mythic traditions common to human cultures around the world. Maltese myths and the architecture of these stories, performance/spoken word and layered drawing and digital image will form the basis of her work.