Kathy Bergquist is an artist working in sculpture, installation, assemblage, and land art. Kathy came to the visual arts via a circuitous route, living and working in the western and northern U.S., northern and central Canada, and northern Sweden. Her work included farming and ranching, rangeland firefighting, field work positions in biogeochemistry and archaeology, and oral history. Kathy holds a B.A. in Geography from McGill University, and has participated in workshops and courses in welding. Formal art training has included sculpture courses at the Ottawa School of Art and the University of Ottawa, and art writing workshops through the Ottawa Art Gallery. Kathy has been awarded residencies at Stegner House and at Halls Island. She is a founding member of Studio Space Ottawa.

Environmental considerations have shifted her practice from metal work toward working more exclusively with found objects. Currently, her most prominent material is found maps – slicing, weaving, stacking, cutting into, felting, stitching – she pushes paper maps malleability.

Kathy’s work is about the relationships between physical, cultural, and spiritual elements of landscape. Exploring interactions between forms and forces, reciprocity, and navigating uncertainty are recurring themes in her work.