Founded by UK artist Gudrun Filipska, the Arts Territory Exchange (aTE) is comprised of a global network of artists and art practices which respond to the geography of their territory of production.
​Carly has been working with Arts Territory Exchange since 2017 developing the virtual residency model and supporting funding applications

Carly Butler (she/her) is a settler artist in Canada of British and Iranian descent. She currently lives and works on Vancouver Island in Ucluelet on the traditional territory of the Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ. Her interdisciplinary practice reinterprets nautical knowledge around navigation and survival to reflect on longing, regret, and nostalgia.

Showing experimental works in a space under my deck in Ucluelet, British Columbia.

Nuu-chah-nulth artist Hjalmer Wenstob, from Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations of Clayoquot Sound, and settler artist Carly Butler, interrogate the stories transmitted through our commonly held histories through a series of ongoing collaborations.

S is a collaborative project between Gudrun Filipska in the Uk and Carly Butler in Canada. It involves a combination of real and virtual walking and running, various documented mapping processes, celestial navigation, prints performance works and an archive of postal communique, books, essays and zines.​

Carly is the Executive Director of the Tofino Arts Council and has nearly three decades of experience in the arts and nonprofit fundraising and development.