Lara Bode | Fish Camp
Lara Bode
Fish Camp
EDGE GALLERY
August 7 - 29, 2026
Opening Reception: August 7, 5-7pm
The driving force behind my practice recently has been the relationship between humans and the environment, and the environment and cultural practices. It's no secret that the Chinook salmon have been decreasing in population at an alarming rate and are threatened by numerous factors. Although in in some of my past works I was eager to force viewers to confront climate disasters, this work is a personal reflection on a tradition I may never get to have passed down to me.
The salmon harvest, which for centuries has been an integral food source for the Indigenous people of the Yukon, is being willingly forwent by many families, mine included, and is just one of many realities of climate change. I was brought out to fish camp once as a child and never went again. I never thought about it much, but as I grew older the people around had started to expressed grief at the loss of the salmon, and I realized how precious those memories were. These works spawn from the canvas walls of a wall tent, the shade offered from a tarp, and salmon being smoked and dried.
LARA BODE
Lara Bode (b. 2003) is a Northern Tutchone visual artist currently residing in Whitehorse, YT. Her works blend the visual language of traditional indigenous art with western notions of painting and drawing. Lara works primarily in oil on unstretched canvas with textile-based interventions such as embroidery and beading. She uses this interdisciplinary approach to situate herself as an artist raised with indigenous values living in an inherently extraction-driven society. Lara has studied art in Vancouver, BC, at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she received her BFA (2026).
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