Born in Winnipeg, now living in Toronto, Hope Peterson holds an MFA from Concordia University in Open Media.
Hope is a media artist and filmmaker working in experimental, documentary and installation genres.
Her artistic practice references the tension of isolation, transition, surveillance, privacy and the pressures of living in a landscape mediated by technology.
Her work has exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the collections of the University of Winnipeg and the National Gallery of Canada.
Hope is also a cultural worker primarily in artist-run centres, and is an experienced grant writer, adjudicator and mentor.
A Day in the Life of a Bull-Dyke follows a big boned butch into skirmishes, drag, and the arms of a beautiful recruit. The public and private lives of this "strange animal" are explored with the reverence and glee found in the educational exposés like Reefer Madness and bad-boy films like Rebel without a Cause. However, because this fictionalized lesbian history is a first-person narrative, it is filled with all the joy, pain, and ambivalence each of us experiences while negotiating a marginalized identity.