Canada House is right opposite the National Gallery and houses its own art gallery, currently showing Habitable Climes, by Canadian artist Kristina Chan, a photographer and printer.
Chan is the second artist in The Sunderland Collection’s Art Programme, launched in 2024 where artists are invited to create new work in response to Collection items in any way they choose.
Chan explores the mutability of territories and the subjectivity of “fact” in her imagery as well as a sense of, as she calls it “awe and caution”.
These large scale photographic composites, the biggest pieces in the show, reference the panoramic format of rare 19th Century Chinese maps from the Collection.
The Sunderland Collection also has a virtual home, where you can view the entire collection online: everything from 12th to 19th Century cartography, another subject for a later date perhaps.