Portfolio

One in Light

Artist: Dan Corson

Location: One Harbour Green

Budget: Art Design, Fabrication and Installation $156,56

Artwork Description: A creation of miniature towers that would reference the urban nature of the site and its close proximity to the water. A series of eight towers live in a city of water. The towers are representative of the 8 residential towers that ASPAC has produced for this neighbourhood.

Materials: Electro-polished steel, glass, UV stable clear resin, Urethane, LED gemtues with filled clear potting solution.

One in Light - Project Photos (click to enlarge)

   

Sliding Edge

Artists: Jacqui Metz and Nancy Chew

Location: Cascina and Denia – Coal Harbour, Vancouver

Budget: Art Design, Fabrication and Installation $200,000

Artwork Description: Sliding Edge alludes to the always moving edge of the waterfront, the sea sliding in and out on the tides, the waves lapping, the shifting of the earth's edge, and the changes over time. This work refers to the site's natural and industrial context, to ideas of nature and culture.

Materials: bronze figure, stone waterfall pre-cast concrete pavers, rundle stone benches, stainless steel letters, and cast iron.

Sliding Edge - Project Photos (click to enlarge)

  

Scopes of Site

Artist: Jill Anholt

Location: Cascina and Denia – Coal Harbour, Vancouver

Budget: Art Design, Fabrication and Installation $84,000

Artwork Description: Scope of Site consists of six stainless steel and concrete shafts that rise dynamically from out of the ground. The shafts or scope refer to the exploration devices that were used on the site in the mid 19th century.

Materials: Steel tubes, sheathing, concrete, glass viewing oculus, fesnel lenses, mirror, lense framework.

Scopes of Site - Project Photos (click to enlarge)

 

Weave

Artist: Douglas Senft

Location: Escala – Coal Harbour, Vancouver

Budget: Art Design, Fabrication and Installation $141,450

Artwork Description: Weave is intended as a visual narrative of the history and transformation of Coal Harbour and its surrounding environment.

Materials: three eight foot diameter Bark rings, cast bronze pavers, stainless steel text benches, cast aluminum tree grates and annular bronze panels on seven columns.

Weave - Project Photos (click to enlarge)

Make West

Artist: Bill Pechet

Location: Avila and Bauhinia – Coal Harbour, Vancouver

Budget: Art Design, Fabrication and Installation $188,500

Artwork Description: Make West is an attempt to represent the history of Coal Harbour and by extension, Vancouver and Western Canada. It does so in the form of a series of shards, or extractions which constitute a game. Make West contextualizes Vancouver's urban growth by referencing the technical aspect of the history of railway building in B.C.

Materials: 115 cast bronze paving stones, 11 mounted on bronze pipe legs, acting as shield for night lighting; Beijing green slate, lights and granite boulders.

Make West - Project Photos (click to enlarge)

Birdhouse Forest

Artists: Various artists

Artwork Description: Fifteen eclectic birdhouses have been built by local artists with a variety of materials to creatively incorporate the needs of the local bird habitat.

Birdhouse Forest - Project Photos (click to enlarge)

  

Lonsdale Banner 2003

Design: Ross Munro

Artwork Description: Artist's interpretation of the Central Lonsdale business district.

Lonsdale Banner - Project Photos (click to enlarge)

   

Living Ruin – St. Andrew's Park

Artists: Bill Pechet and Stephanie Robb

Budget: Art Design, Fabrication and Installation $40,000

Artwork Description: 'living' Ruin is a low-to-the ground, free-form geometric shape constructed of split granite forming a semi-enclosed, safe place for play.

Materials: Granite

St. Andrew's Park - Project Photos (click to enlarge)

  

Essential Elements

Artists: Peter Pierobon and Sibeal Foyle

Budget: Art Design, Fabrication and Installation $10,000

Artwork Description: Approximately 60 meters of barrier was created with the installation of ten wooden poles, Each pole is topped with a painted cedar shaped and sculpted form which pivots in the wind. The sculptured pieces define the boundaries and evoke a sense of history of the area while acknowledging the growth of the local community and public infrastructure. Symbols represent wheat sheaf, fiddlehead, clouds, fish, bighorn, stylized bucksaw, feather, fern, broom, gears). The structure serves both as a piece of public art as well as a protective barrier from industry for cyclists on this bike route.

Materials: 10 Wooden poles (9' at the base and 6' at the top), with a height of 14 ft. above the ground level, 10 cedar sculptures are approximately one meter in diameter and are painted and coated with epoxy 20 stained wooden poles (8'in diameter and 60' in height

Essential Elements - Project Photos (click to enlarge)

 

Bus Shelter

Artists: Phillip and Kirstie Robbins

Budget: Art Design, Fabrication and Installation $ 40,000

Materials: made of steel and wood, this two-sided shelter is textured with a terrain map of the area.

Bus Shelter - Project Photos (click to enlarge)

   

Veil

Artist: SWON Design Group

Budget: Art Design, Fabrication and Installation $ 85,000

Artwork Description: Through the examination of evolving myths and story telling tradition paired with representing elements from the natural world the artists sought to make a visual statement that encompassed natural, geographic and cultural evolutions. The final design, entitled, "Veil" was drawn from the generating line – "the wind becomes the sea becomes the land becomes the veil". The artwork is an amalgamation of the lines representing the contents of that statement and drawing influences of humankind's relationship, debt and growth with the natural world.

The artwork abstractly represents a variety of natural forms, forces and movements and is centered with a representation of a hanging fabric, clock or curtain symbolic of the evolution of human cultural expression.

Materials: hand-blown glass tubes with argon lighting "The installation will be comprised of a total of eight circuits with one transformer each and a minimum of sixty-four tubes of varying length, form, colour and diameter."

Veil - Project Photos (click to enlarge)

  

Queen Mary Butterfly Garden – Community Art

Artists: Andrew Currie and Queen Mary Elementary Students

Budget: Art Design, Fabrication and Installation $15,000

Artwork Description: The lower, first and second floor hallways display murals illustrating a children’s garden with bold colour and large format. One wall of the library on the main floor has been similarly illustrated with the design of a large tree continued on the second floor directly above. Suspended from the library ceiling and the adjoining stairway are three foot, 3-D butterflies, designed by the students. The community project, from design to completion, involved students, teachers, school administration, parents and interested community members.

Materials: Painted mural, paper mache and wire

Queen Mary Butterfly Garden - Project Photos (click to enlarge)

   

Word Link

Artist: Karen Kazmer

Budget: Art Design, Fabrication and Installation $32,000

Artwork Description: Kinsmen Park New Washroom Building: The redesigned fieldhouse with washrooms incorporated sculptural chain link fence panels, stainless steel discs with sport action words bouncing across them, polished stainless steel mirrors etched and concrete floor cast with action words. The interior and exterior of the building were painted deep orange and red. Artist Statement: My intention with this project was to create a curvilinear visual poetry with materials that would normally be found on a baseball or soccer field.

Materials: chain link fence, stainless steel, concrete, and paint.

Wordlink - Project Photos (click to enlarge)

 

Witness

Artist: Karen Kazmer

Budget: Art Design, Fabrication and Installation $32,000

Artwork Description: Kinsmen Park New Washroom Building: The redesigned fieldhouse with washrooms incorporated sculptural chain link fence panels, stainless steel discs with sport action words bouncing across them, polished stainless steel mirrors etched and concrete floor cast with action words. The interior and exterior of the building were painted deep orange and red. Artist Statement: My intention with this project was to create a curvilinear visual poetry with materials that would normally be found on a baseball or soccer field.

Materials: chain link fence, stainless steel, concrete, and paint.

Wordlink - Project Photos (click to enlarge)

 

Bumblebee and Magnolia

Artist: Doug Taylor

Location: Client Embassy Development Ltd. - Renaissance

Budget: Art Design, Fabrication and Installation Budget $50,000

Artwork Description: The Renaissance landscape design features a magnolia tree as a central element. While designing my public art piece I related directly to this tree in the creation of "Magnolia and Bumble Bee".

When the wind comes from the south it can be seen rotating an inner turbine which in turn drives the bumblebee around the flower.

Materials: Sailcloth fabric on all petals, rotary turbine, thrust bearings, main shaft and sprocket shaft, sprocket and chain connector assembly.

Project Photos (click to enlarge)

 

A Million Summers

Artist: Blake Williams

Location: Surrey Sports and Leisure Aquatic and Fitness Facility, Client City of Surrey

Budget: Art Design, Fabrication and Installation $112,500

Artwork Description: The approach to the project was to create imagery that would evoke the magic, mystery, history and potential of British Columbia’s west coast. Image that would portray the natural world and our interactions with it and to some degree how it has been impacted urbanization, portraying lost plant and animal species, buried streams and altered relationships between inhabitants of this land.

Materials: tiles located on wall at the entrance doors, four large panels at the end of the pool, glass viewing frames along the window, children’s tiles located in the washrooms.

A Million Summers - Project Photos (click to enlarge)

  

Yet Another Way to Know that Petro Chemicals and Their Byproducts are Intrinsic to Modern Life

Artist: Dwight Atkinson - Atkinson Iconography Studio

Client: Petro Canada

Budget: Art Design, Fabrication and Installation $15,000

Artwork Description: An extended bus shelter, etched and overlaid with a timeline of text and photos, humourously illustrates the development of petroleum products.

North Vancouver Bus Shelter - Project Photos (click to enlarge)