She then moved to Vancouver in 1967 to undertake graduate studies at Simon Fraser University in psychology, and focused on the subject of consciousness, but decided to be an artist.
Sourkes' work is inspired by her experience of the world around her, selected and edited, and raises questions about socio-political and ideological issues.
From 1993 onward, concurrent with her move to Toronto, Sourkes' shifted her methodology and began to use computer-based source imagery found on the World Wide Web or from 2000 on, on webcams, transformed into still images or videos.
[3] In 2005-2007 her work was the subject of the touring retrospective exhibition Cheryl Sourkes: Public Camera, organized by Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (shown at the National Gallery of Canada), Ottawa, ON.
[3] In 2021, she was one of the participants in John Greyson's experimental short documentary film International Dawn Chorus Day.