About me
Artist Biography: Sierra MacTavish is a Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist working across experimental photography, collage, moving image, and sound. Her practice explores how place is perceived, recorded, and remembered, drawing on overlooked details of natural and built environments.
Using data-bending and sound-based experimentation, MacTavish transforms material through processes of distortion, fragmentation, and reassembly. The resulting works combine atmospheric colour and sound, allowing familiar environments to take on new forms and associations.
Her work considers how processes of documentation and transformation alter our understanding of place, exploring the relationship between what is observed, what is recorded, and what is ultimately perceived.
Land Acknowledgment: I am based on the unceded, ancestral lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, colonially known as "Vancouver".I acknowledge that these lands have been stewarded since time immemorial by the Indigenous peoples who continue to resist displacement and erasure. My work is grounded in an ongoing commitment to learning, accountability, and relationship-building that supports Indigenous sovereignty and justice through both words and action.This acknowledgment is not a substitute for reparative work, but a reminder that everything I create and share is shaped by being a guest on this land.