Sar Nordstrom

Sar Nordstrom is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is situated in Victoria BC on the unceded ancestral land of the Lekwungen peoples, also known as the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations communities. They studied at Emily Carr University of Art and Design while investigating themes of body, community, the everyday and the natural world. Their paintings are grounded in the meeting place between the human and the ecological. They explore these liminal intersections by imagining new worlds where coastal forest meets city. Their work reiterates our coalescing moment of the old and the new, the past, present and future. Nordstrom works in vivid colour and texture to build an optic tactility in their paintings, often bringing textile and paint together as they envision what lives between the seams of the everyday. As a social practice they are always looking to weave together new reciprocal relations and reparative connections.