Canadian curator and critic Sarah Milroy will take over the leadership of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection this fall, the institution said Friday as it announced the retirement of director Ian Dejardin.
He and Milroy have worked together on shows devoted to classic Canadian art in both Britain and Canada since they first teamed up for an Emily Carr show at the Dulwich in 2014. It was Dejardin’s second venture in introducing an appreciative British public to early 20th-century Canadian art, after his Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven in 2011.
Milroy worked as a critic and independent curator before joining the McMichael. She served as the editor of Canadian Art Magazine in the 1990s and worked as the art critic at The Globe and Mail from 2001 to 2011. As a curator, she has collaborated with Dejardin on exhibitions devoted to Vanessa Bell, David Milne and Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald.