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Public Art - Collection
This website features over one hundred artworks located right here in North Vancouver. The artworks are one-of-a-kind pieces that were created through one of three public art project streams; civic, community or developer. Each public artwork has a story to tell about our unique corner of the world. Explore this outstanding collection and discover more about our people, our history, our environment and our culture.
Coming Home is a testament to the story of West Coast salmon.
The rich mythology of spawning salmon provides a captivating entry point for discussion of natural cycles, of place and of home.
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A simple band of stainless steel; a brilliant portal of light: Past, present and future roll into one flowing form, renewed continually.
This sculpture commemorates the Centennial anniversary o...
The inspiration for creek lines is sourced from topographic mapping of Mosquito Creek watershed, along with Mackay, Wagg and Thain creeks.
Nine dragonflies – each precision cast in porous glass, delicately coloured to replicate the markings of species indigenous to Lynn Canyon and Rice Lake, and each with a wingspan of 60–...
When this facility converted from a high school to a community recreation centre, an artist was commissioned to add a creative element reflective of the building's new function.
Ceiling mounted sculpture contains references to natural forms, place, the local environment and the continuing
change along Marine Drive.
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Local residents participated were invited to work with local artist Eric Neighbour to creation sculptures that would become permanent fixtures at Delbrook recCentre. Participants organized into tea...
In 1998, when the Bank of Montreal decided to re-model their Edgemont Village Branch, this resulted in the removal of the pedestrian clock. Soon thereafter local residents set out to raise money to...
Male and female figures emerge from the natural contours out of a polished granite slab.
Located in Victoria Park, this sculpture and its surrounding path represents the creative outcome of a collaborative community art process inviting bereaved parents to express the love felt for chi...
Originally installed as an artistic bike barrier on the low level road in 2002, this sculptural work was relocated to Esplanade Avenue in 2014, as part of the Port Metro road realignment project. E...
This artwork is positioned at the south end of William Griffin parking lot on the west side of the foot bridge over the river. Working with the theme of city grid to natural patterning, the artis...
Tucked into a meadow located directly behind the Lynn Canyon Café, this artwork addresses the primal power of life. Five huge granite slabs that transition from sharp to jagged to worn resem...
Located within the Seymour River Heritage Park this piece can be found on river bed situated directly behind Maplewood Farm. Through a series of five stones proceeding from sharp to smooth the artw...
Like a community of people, a forest is composed of many different parts. This complex arrangement of benches pays homage to the fallen tree, with its root system flaring upward towards the sky. Wh...
The street name Sunnyhurst is an old Anglo-Saxon phrase for a sunny grove of trees. Here, a sun disc with ancient markings represent stories of the community embedded in the passage of time, whil...
This sculpture was created to add a focal point to the entrance area of Chadwick Court in North Vancouver, B.C. It represents the salmon running upstream.
Sculpture was removed in 2005.
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Stylized depiction of young owl in cast cement. Installed at the Murdo Frazer Golf Course in summer of 2007.
Inter-River Sports Park entryway and baseball backstops are adorned with a variety of colourful shapes and sculptural forms. The artist's creation consists of abstract shapes made from fence ma...
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