By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer
December 13th, 2021, marks the 150th anniversary of Emily Carr’s birth. Beyond this commemoration, the AGGV’s exhibition Emily Carr: Seeing + Being Seen features artworks that carry significance that is as relevant today as they were nearly a century ago when they were first made.
Nicole Stanbridge, Curator of Engagement, AGGV, interviews India Rael Young, Curator of Art and Images at the Royal BC Museum about the exhibition Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing – French Modernism and the West Coast.
By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer
In the exhibition Celebrating the AGGV Collection, three contemporary artworks stand out for their interconnectedness with other parts of the AGGV’s collection.
By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer
Celebrating the AGGV Collection brings together the highlights in the AGGV’s permanent collection of artworks, bringing into perspective the breadth and depth of the Gallery’s holdings.
The varied land and seascapes around Victoria have provided inspiration to artists for hundreds of years. Can you identify where these locales are in the paintings, drawings and photographs below from the AGGV Collection?
Abstraction in art is a visual language that uses line, colour, form and composition that are non-representational or independent to a certain degree of any reference to the world.