Bronwyn Butterfield is a Cree-Métis / settler beadwork artist, whose practice uses beads as a way to move between other materials and processes such as painting, drawing, film, sound, printmaking and organic fibre materials. Beadwork becomes a way of telling stories and understanding recurring themes in her life and surroundings: functionality of beaded objects; dreams, intuition, imagination, and nostalgia; human geography and place-based, site-specific work; identity and the intersection of her prairie roots as both Cree-Métis and settler-European; the perceived dichotomies between urban and natural worlds and colonial thought; and archival family histories and photographs.