Don Gill: D'arcy Island

Social history is inextricably tied to natural history and Don Gill's investigations have produced a convergence of the two, often evolving into case studies which the artist documents through photography, text, video and installation. D'Arcy Island Project, which is just off Vancouver Island, was home to a leper colony from 1894 to 1924. Forty-nine Chinese men were exiled to the island after contracting leprosy and were left to fend for themselves. Gill's work maps this historical landscape through film and photography.