In the summer of 1898, a young Emily Carr boarded the steamship Willapa to return to Victoria with a portfolio of drawings and watercolours of the Indigenous communities of Ucluelet. She was just 27 and already deeply committed to becoming a serious artist, even though that path for women…
Art historian Stephanie Kirkwood Walker, in her insightful book This Woman in Particular: Concepts for the Biographical Image of Emily Carr (1996, Wilfred University Press), argues that the composite image of Carr that emerges—across biographies, plays, films, poems, and her own words—is a “cultural artefact.” It is necessarily fragmented, constantly evolving,…
The electric bulb over our bed was still swaying when I opened my eyes. It was evident someone had just switched it on. By the clock it was early morning. By the hole in the sky which was the open dormer window it was little beyond the murk of…
hosted, designed & maintained by Marilyn Jones for the walks & talks, bus tours and presentations she offers on Emily Carr in-person and online from Victoria, BC.
