Dr Michael Polay Author

Kiriko Watanabe is the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Curator at the Audain Art Museum, where she has taken on Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing as her first major curatorial project. Originally from Japan, she is interested in the visual and design culture of British Columbia, with a special focus on mid-century and West Coast B.C. art. She is the curator and co-author of Selwyn Pullan: Photographing Mid-Century West Coast Modernism, and the recipient of an Award of Excellence from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Dr. Kathryn Bridge is the emerita Curator of History and Art at the Royal British Columbia Museum, and an adjunct faculty member in the History department at the University of Victoria. During her long and varied career at the RBCM, she curated several popular exhibitions about Emily Carr and the history of B.C., wrote and edited three books on Carr, and contributed the introductory essay to Carr’s short-story collection Klee Wyck. Robin Laurence is an independent writer, critic, and curator based in Vancouver. She is the visual arts critic for The Georgia Straight, and has been a contributing editor for both Canadian Art and Border Crossings magazines. She has published essays about art and artists in more than fifty books and exhibition catalogues, and has produced numerous reviews and feature articles for local, national, and international publications. Dr. Michael Polay is a medical doctor whose affinity for Emily Carr's work led him to collect several of her paintings. As he learned more about Carr, he began researching her paintings in his collection and eventually compiled a lifetime exhibition history of Carr's work—including catalogues, lists, and reviews of each show—which gained him a special insight into her career and an exceptional knowledge of her body of work.