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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.

A community art project that saw the creation of an outdoor chessboard (100 square feet) for users of the Parkgate Community Centre.

Located in the open public plaza, and suspended from the north wall of the elevator shaft, the piece consists of large, translucent glass panels painted with a digitally manipulated image of a gian...
A collection of six stainless steel paddles (and one oar), modeled on indigenous cultures from around the world, create an allegorical piece that tells the story of migration and settlement on a sc...
An integrated bench installation at the pedestrian entry to this Lynn Valley town house complex - four benches are grouped around a central courtyard containing a kinetic weather sculpture (windvan...
Cast in aluminum and perched atop andesite columns ranging in height from 11 to 14 feet, three ravens are captured in flight. Each of the ravens is mounted on a bearing system and rotates gently in...
Set in a small pond within a triangular traffic island, the fountain marks the entrance to Capilano Highlands. Norris is more famous for his iconic "Crab Fountain" at the Vancouver Museum...
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.   ...
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.
 

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...
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...

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...

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.

Forest Spirit draws its inspiration from the trees and rivers in Lynn Canyon, as seen through water droplets on a camera lens.  Magnified and reinterpreted in sculptural form, the sphere is re...
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