Research in artworks: Copper

Scriptura

Carole Baillargeon, Scriptura, 1994
Two sculptures representing scenes costumes for women and men are installed inside niches that face. The costumes, first cast in concrete, then covered with a woven copper strips. Splashes of concrete [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Baillargeon, Carole
Installation year: 
1994

Sliding Edge

Jacqueline Metz & Nancy Chew, Sliding Edge, 2003. © Marc André BrouilletteJacqueline Metz & Nancy Chew, Sliding Edge, 2003. © Marc André BrouilletteJacqueline Metz & Nancy Chew, Sliding Edge, 2003. © Marc André BrouilletteJacqueline Metz & Nancy Chew, Sliding Edge, 2003
Along the seawall, a rough yet elegant waterfall made of black rundle stone is installed; the stacked, linear, irregular stone edges are abstractions of geological layers. Standing on top of the water [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Metz, Jacqueline; Chew, Nancy
Installation year: 
2003

SOS

John Dickson, SOS, 2001
A device installed on the bottom of the harbour water shoots air bubbles to the surface every 22 seconds. The bubbles spell the acronym SOS. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Dickson, John
Installation year: 
2001

Sq’ac’ay’s

Katherine Kerr, Sq’ac’ay’s, 2005Katherine Kerr, Sq’ac’ay’s, 2005
Three totemic lanterns stand before the station. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Kerr, Katherine
Installation year: 
2005

Street Light

Bernie Miller & Alan Tregebov, Street Light, 1997. © Marc André BrouilletteBernie Miller & Alan Tregebov, Street Light, 1997. © Marc André BrouilletteBernie Miller & Alan Tregebov, Street Light, 1997. © Marc André BrouilletteBernie Miller & Alan Tregebov, Street Light, 1997. © Marc André Brouillette
Each of six twelve-meter high, bronze I-beam towers hold an image cut into a metal plate that illustrate the history of the area. The plates cast the shadow of the image onto the street. Texts etched [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Miller, Bernie; Tregebov, Alan
Installation year: 
1997

Table Talk

Ilan Sandler, Table Talk, 2005Ilan Sandler, Table Talk, 2005Ilan Sandler, Table Talk, 2005
Table Talk is a set of three circular copper table tops with text stamped around the circumference. The text is made up of excerpts from interviews with victims of or witnesses to violent crimes. The [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Sandler, Ilan
Installation year: 
2005

Third Garden

Warren Quigley & Millie Chen,Third Garden, 2002Warren Quigley & Millie Chen,Third Garden, 2002Warren Quigley & Millie Chen,Third Garden, 2002
Third Garden is designed as a monument to local memory. This garden refers to the past use of the surrounding grounds as a healing site for psychiatric care, and to current day use as regenerated land [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Chen, Millie; Quigley, Warren
Installation year: 
2002

Triptyque

Betty Goodwin, Triptyque,1991
Giant ears with engraved text on the ground. The installation consists of a sculpture and mirrors attached to the wall, as well as inlays on the ground. Asculpted bronze ear is reflected in the angled [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Goodwin, Betty
Installation year: 
1991

Unlimited Growth Increases The Divide

Kathryn Walter, Unlimited Growth IncreasesThe Divide, 1990Kathryn Walter, Unlimited Growth IncreasesThe Divide, 1990
The text consists of 7" copper letters installed above the entrance to the gallery. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Walter, Kathryn
Installation year: 
1990

Untitled

Lucienne Cornet, Sans Titre, 1983. © Renée Larochelle
The sculpture consists of two panels mounted onto two brick walls. The first panel is a long horizontal rectangle and presents different types of representations subject to the morphology of the first [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Cornet, Lucienne
Installation year: 
1983

Vie-Vent

Normand Forget, Vie-Vent, 1997Normand Forget, Vie-Vent, 1997Normand Forget, Vie-Vent, 1997. © Denis Farley
The work consists of a hanging low relief sculpture and an installation in the floor's surface. The hanging sculpture is a reproduction of a maple tree samara. A plaque shaped like a wild cherry tree [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Forget, Normand
Installation year: 
1997

Vytaieno

Dawn Mcnutt, Vytaieno, 1992Dawn Mcnutt, Vytaieno, 1992
The statue displays the 1891 and 1991 Canadian flags as a display of past, present and future. The bread and the salt placed on an embroidered towel is a traditional Ukrainian welcome representing lif [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Mcnutt, Dawn
Installation year: 
1992

Weave

Douglas Senft, Weave, 2002. © Marc André BrouilletteDouglas Senft, Weave, 2002. © Marc André BrouilletteDouglas Senft, Weave, 2002. © Marc André BrouilletteDouglas Senft, Weave, 2002. © Marc André Brouillette
The work addresses the history of Coal Harbour and is comprised of four parts. 1) Three bronze rings (8' diameter) and one bronze half-ring (15' in diameter) are cast into the paving stones that [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Senft, Douglas
Installation year: 
2002

When The Forest Moves

Warren Quigley,  When The Forest Moves, 1995Warren Quigley,  When The Forest Moves, 1995Warren Quigley,  When The Forest Moves, 1995
The installation takes the form of three maple trees, with their burlap-wrapped root bags intact, situated at the end of a sculpted earth furrow which seems to have been dug out by the Northbound sc [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Quigley, Warren
Installation year: 
1995