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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. The Arts Office invites you to explore this outstanding collection and discover more about our people, our history, our environment and our culture.

creek lines2009

The inspiration for creek lines is sourced from topographic mapping of Mosquito Creek watershed, along with Mackay, Wagg and Thain creeks.

Dance of the Odanata2002

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–...

Delbrook Arches1992

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.

Drifters2004

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...

Edgemont Clock2004

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...

Emergence

Male and female figures emerge from the natural contours out of a polished granite slab.

Enduring Love2010

Located in Victoria Park, this sculpture and its surrounding path represents the creative outcome of collaborative community art process inviting bereaved parents to express the love felt for child...

Essential Elements2002

Approximately 60 meters of barrier was created with the installation of ten wooden poles, Each pole is topped with a painted cedar sculpture which pivots in the wind. These pole-top sculptures evok...

Eventually #12008

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...

Eventually #22008

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...

Eventually #3 2008

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...

Fallen Tree - New Beginnings 2012

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...

Family SculptureUnknown

Sculpture mounted on the side of the North Shore Neighbourhood House.

First Light2008

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...

Fish Forms Rushing Upstream1982

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. ...

Fledgling1960

Stylized depiction of young owl in cast cement. Installed at the Murdo Frazer Golf Course in summer of 2007.

Flow Forms2004

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 fe...

Forest Lore2010

For this mural, local artist Dana Irving draws inspiration from Lynn Creek. Forest Lore captures the magic of the Lynn Valley forest and is a subject she returns to again and again.

Free Wheeling 2004

SCULPTURE (wrought iron): created from a found object (wagon wheel) in the Seymour area, the work translates the industrial heritage of the materials in an exploration of form.

Friendship Gate2004

A community garden gateway, produced with relief ceramic tiles, illustrates colourful native plants and dense vegetative.