Exploring the Legacy of Emily Carr

Join Ferry Building Gallery staff for an exciting day unpacking the brilliance and legacy of Emily Carr. Enjoy a guided tour of the new Emily Carr exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery followed by a visit to a couple of local artists’ studios.

Bus leaves from the Ferry Building Gallery.

Cost includes Vancouver Art Gallery admission and guided tour.

About the exhibition

Emily Carr: Navigating an Impenetrable Landscape draws out the question of the opening and closing-off of space in Carr's landscapes by contrasting a densely hung group of paintings with sparsely hung later works that depict an open horizon. Ironically, many of the spatially open works are open precisely because they depict landscapes that had been recently subject to clear-cut logging.

This exhibition uses the spatial metaphor of closeness to and distance from nature to probe Carr's thinking about the forests she painted. It will also examine how Carr's representation of some Indigenous subjects—particularly villages and totem poles set within landscapes—sit in relation to the dense forest and what this might suggest, given the late 19th- and early 20th-century tendency to conflate Indigenous cultures with nature.