Carel Moiseiwitsch

Trained as a painter at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London, England, Carel Moiseiwitsch leaned heavily into drawing after immigrating to Canada in the 1970s. Her distinctive punk graphic style was seen in a variety of contexts including galleries, underground comix and newspaper editorials. She did graphic work for the Vancouver Sun, Georgia Straight and the Village Voice, among others. Dedicated to progressive politics and social movements throughout her career, Moiseiwitsch's formal style matched the political urgency of her subjects: feminism, institutional racism and colonialism in all its forms. In 2011, Moiseiwitsch relocated from Vancouver to Lytton, BC. In 2021, a wildfire destroyed the entire town and with it her home and life’s work. Forced back to the city from the country as a climate refugee, in Vancouver she returned to painting – landscape painting in particular. Once too genteel a proposition for the artist, scenes of a landscape on fire, fueled by human-caused climate change, have become a particularly urgent subject.